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Production: unidentified Langnau pottery
Red earthenware, coated in white slip with incised decorsation painted in red-brown slip, green and yellow under lead-glaze. Circular with a wavy edge, wide rim, and shallow well. In the middle is a miller boulting grain through a sieve, into a large wooden vat, behind which are sacks, one of them inscribed UR with a mill-wheel below; the whole enclosed by a band with an incised inscription: 'Kein Glauben Gibt nich Jederman, welcher vor dir woll schwetzen kan, nicht ales Recht ausz Hartzes Grund, was schön u: Lieblich ret der mund/1780'. On the rim there are symmetrical groups of formal flowers, On the umnderside of the rim there is a loop for suspension, and marbling in red and white slip splashed with green; the central area of the back is undecorated
History note: Mrs Born-Straub, Thun, from whom bought for about 60 francs on 3 May 1904 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Diameter: 34 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, Late
Production date:
dated
AD 1780
Decoration
composed of
oxide colours
Surface
composed of
slip
Accession number: C.1904-1928
Primary reference Number: 72837
Old object number: 2043
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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