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Pottery:
Redcliff Back Pottery
(Probably)
Proprietor of pottery:
Frank, Richard
Earthenware tin-glazed lavender-blue and painted in blue, yellow and manganese-purple with a Chinese figure beside a pavilion, and in bianco-sopra-bianco with a floral border. Reverse inscribed 'P/JB/1763'.
Buff earthenware tin-glazed pale lavender-blue and painted in blue, yellow and manganese-purple, and in opaque white in bianco-sopra-bianco technique. Circular with a wide rim, shallow curved sides and flat centre with recessed base. Decorated in the middle with a Chinese figure beside a pavilion and trees within a narrow circular geometric border. The rim is painted in bianco-sopra-bianco with two large sprays of stylized flowers, leaves and ‘pine cones’ separated by single flower heads. The reverse is inscribed in the centre in blue ‘P/JB/1763’.
History note: Unknown before Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Diameter: 22.7 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, third quarter#
George III
Production date:
dated
AD 1763
Decoration composed of high-temperature colour ( blue, yellow, manganese-purple, and white)
buff
Earthenware
lavender-blue
Tin-glaze
Moulding
: Buff earthenware, moulded, tin-glazed lavender-blue, and painted in blue, yellow, and manganese-purple, and bianco-sopra-bianco
Tin-glazing
Accession number: C.1704-1928
Primary reference Number: 72483
Old object number: 1518
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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