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Pottery:
Unidentified Liverpool pottery
(Possibly)
Pottery:
Unidentified Lambeth Pottery
(Possibly)
Tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue
Buff earthenware, thrown, covered with very shiny tin-glaze, and pained in blue. Circular with deep curved sides, standing on a high footring. The interior is inscribed in the middle 'C/WM/1733', and painted with four crossed lozenges alternating with four formal motifs, perhaps intended for flaming pearls. The outside is decorated with floral sprays and birds, and with an upper border of pendant leaves, flanked by C-shaped tendrils.
History note: Mr Merton, Wood & Co., 23 Basnett Street, Liverpool, who sent it on approval to Cambridge. Purchased on 25 March 1928 by Dr J.W.L. Glasher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Diameter: 29.8 cm
Height: 16.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, second quarter#
George II
Production date:
dated
AD 1733
Dr Glaisher considered that this bowl was made in Liverpool. The flying birds are reminiscent of those on the large punchbowl C.1716 & A-C-1928, but otherwise the decoration does not give a strong indication of its origin.
Decoration composed of high-temperature colour ( blue derived from cobalt)
buff
Earthenware
very shiny white
Tin-glaze
Throwing
: Buff earthenware, thrown, tin-glazed and painted in blue
Tin-glazing
Accession number: C.1717-1928
Primary reference Number: 72503
Old object number: 4998
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Punch bowl" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/72503 Accessed: 2024-11-06 00:03:00
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