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Ship Bowl
Pottery: Liverpool
Tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue, green, orange-red, and manganese-purple with a ship and flowers inside, and a hunting scene on the outside
Buff earthenware, thrown, covered with bluish-tin-glazed, and painted in blue, green, orange-red, and manganese. Circular with deep curved sides, standing on a footring. The inside is decorated with a three-masted ship under sail, flying the Union Jack, with two smaller boats, and below the inscription ‘Success to the Great Brittain/Safe may She Stem the turrant of the Main/With Great Success and Safe Return a Gain/ A. STAFFELL’, and below the rim with a broad border of flowers and trellis panels. On the outside there is a large floral spray and a view of a greyhound chasing a hare through a wood.
History note: Pawnbroker in Essex; Mr S. Fenton, Cranbourn Street, London who sold it on 1 December 1909 to Dr J.W.L. Glaisher FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Diameter: 35.9 cm
Diameter: 14 1/8 in
Height: 14.5 cm
Height: 5 11/16 in
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, third quarter#
George III
Circa
1765
CE
-
1770
CE
Decoration composed of high-temperature colours ( blue, green, yellow, orange-red, and manganese-purple)
bluish
Tin-glaze
buff
Earthenware
Throwing
: Buff earthenware, thrown, covered with bluish tin-glaze, and painted in blue, green, yellow, orange-red, and manganese-purple high temperature (metallic oxide) colours
Tin-glazing
Accession number: C.1722-1928
Primary reference Number: 72528
Old object number: 3091
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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