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Production: Unidentified Staffordshire Potter
Deep earthenware dish press-moulded with a geometrical patterns, coated with cream slip and slip-trailed in pale and very dark brown slips under lead-glaze
Buff earthenware, press-moulded over a hump mould, coated with cream slip, and slip-trailed in pale and very dark brown slips under lead-glaze. The circular dish has deep curved sides, and a 'pie crust' edge formed by impressing a semi-circular tool. The reverse is undecorated and unglazed. The central medallion is outlined in dark brown, and in the middle has has a square filled with nine small squares coloured with alternately pale and dark brown slips. This is surrounded by a chequer pattern of thirty-two squares of two sizes, crossed in alternate colours, and separated by milled lines. The sides are decorated with a wide band of twenty-three larger adjacent lozenges with alternately coloured crosses over them, and below the rim has a border of dark brown reversed Ss or hooks between dark brown horizontal bands.
History note: An unidentified clergyman; J. Bateman, 42 Gloucester Green, Oxford, from whom bought for £15 on July 19 1912 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Diameter: 35.7 cm
Height: 6 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
17th Century, Late
18th Century, Early
Circa
1680
-
1720
Decoration
composed of
slip
( cream, pale brown, very dark brown)
Front Surface
composed of
lead-glaze
( yellowish)
Front
buff Earthenware
Press-moulding : Buff earthenware, press-moulded over a hump mould, slip coated on the front, and slip-trailed in pale and very dark brown slips
Inscription present: fragment of a white paper stick on label with a red printed border
Accession number: C.193-1928
Primary reference Number: 72889
Old object number: 3523
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/72889 Accessed: 2025-03-29 01:50:08
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