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Maker(s)
Production:
Unidentified Staffordshire Potter
Entities
Categories
Description
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.
Notes
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
Legal notes
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Measurements and weight
Diameter: 35.7 cm
Height: 6 cm
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed
(1928-12-07)
by
Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
Dating
17th Century, Late
18th Century, Early
Circa
1680
-
1720
Components of the work
Decoration
composed of
slip
( cream, pale brown, very dark brown)
Front Surface
composed of
lead-glaze
( yellowish)
Front
Materials used in production
buff
Earthenware
Techniques used in production
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 or legends present
Inscription present: fragment of a white paper stick on label with a red printed border
- Text: No 3523/Moulded . . .
- Location: In middle of back
- Method of creation: Hand-written in black ink
- Type: Label
- Text: Old English/1885
- Location: On back near centre
- Method of creation: In red paint
- Type: Inscription
References and bibliographic entries
Identification numbers
Accession number: C.193-1928
Primary reference Number: 72889
Old object number: 3523
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Saturday 6 August 2011
Updated: Tuesday 18 June 2024
Last processed: Tuesday 29 July 2025
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
