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Potter: Unidentified Staffordshire Potter
Press-moulded earthenware dish decorated with cream, reddish-brown and dark brown slips under lead-glaze. Decorated with a central medallion containing the bust of a man, surrounded by borders of rosettes and semicircles.
Buff earthenware press-moulded over a hump mould to create a design in relief on the interior, and impressed round the edge with a striated tool or shell. The inside is coated with cream slip, and slip-trailed in orange-brown and very dark brown under yellowish lead-glaze. Two suspension holes were pierced at the top before firing. The reverse is undecorate, and has a large pale rectangular area where a label was formerly attached. The inside is decorated with a central medallion enclosing the bust of a man three-quarters to left, with a garland below him and a curved curtain on either side. This is surrounded by a wide border of twelve adjacent rosettes in relief and a narrower border of circles in squares and scallops impressed with tiny circles.
History note: Thomas Bateman (1821-61), Lomberdale House, Derbyshire; Sotheby's, 14-15 June, 1893, The Bateman Heirlooms, lot 368; Thomas Boynton, Norman House, Bridlington; sold Stoke-on-Trent, Charles Butters, 23 March 1920, Catalogue of the Early English Pottery and Wedgwood Ware, the property of the late Mr. Thomas Boynton, FSA of . . ., lot 67; bought at a hammer price of £20 by Mr Frank Stoner on behalf of Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Diameter: 35.7 cm
Height: 4.7 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
17th Century, Late
18th Century, Early
1680
-
1720
Inside Decoration
composed of
slip
( cream, orange-brown, and dark brown)
Inside Surface
composed of
lead-glaze
( yellowish)
Suspension Holes
buff Earthenware
Press-moulding : Buff earthenware press-moulded over a hump mould to create a design in relief on the interior, and impressed round the edge with a striated tool or shell. The inside is coated with cream slip, and slip-trailed in orange-brown and very dark brown under yellowish lead-glaze. Two suspension holes were pierced at the top before firing. The reverse is undecorated.
Inscription present: a small part of a circular white paper stick on label printed in black
Inscription present: rectangular judging by mark left on back of dish
Accession number: C.184-1928
Primary reference Number: 72742
Old object number: 4708
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2025) "Dish" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/72742 Accessed: 2025-03-29 01:50:07
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