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Production: Unidentified Staffordshire Potter
Press-moulded slipware dish decorated with St George and the Dragon
Pinkish-buff earthenware, press-moulded over a hump mould to produce a design in slight relief on the inside, coated with cream slip, and slip-trailed in brown under yellowish lead-glaze. The dish is circular with deep curved sides and a crinkled edge produced by impressing it with an oval tool or stick. The exterior is undecorated. The interior is decorated with St George on horseback riding to the right, and spearing a dragon which lies on its back on the ground below him. Behind the Saint''s back is a circular medallion with the initials W B faintly visible at the bottom.
History note: Unidentified owner in Hereford, from whom bought seventeen years previously (probably c. 1907) by Mr Stuart Davis, Chelsea; sold by him through Mr Perry, a dealer of 19 Pelham Street, South Kensington on 10 January, 1925 for £50 plus £5 commission to Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge. Perry brought the dish to Cambridge on 23 February 1925.
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Diameter: 418 cm
Height: 8.7 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, first half
Circa
1700
-
1740
St George is the patron saint of England
Decoration
composed of
slip
( cream and brown)
Inner Surface
composed of
lead-glaze
( yellowish)
Inside Surface
Inside
Press-moulding : Pinkish-buff earthenware, press-moulded over a hump mould to produce a design in slight relief on the inside, coated with cream slip, and slip-trailed in brown under yellowish lead-glaze. The dish is circular with deep curved sides and a crinkled edge produced by impressing it with an oval tool or stick. The exterior is undecorated.
Accession number: C.198-1928
Primary reference Number: 72929
Old object number: 4465
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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