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Sunflower Dish
Probably
Malkin, Samuel
(Potter)
Earthenware moulded with the design outlined in relief, and decorated with cream and yellowish-brown and dark brown slips under lead glaze. In the middle in a panel are the initials S and M.
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed
(1928)
by
Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
1720s
1730s
George I
George II
Circa
1720
CE
-
1740
CE
Samuel; Malkin’s identity is known from a dish in the British Museum which is decorated with a clock face and the words ‘Samuel Malkin/The maker/in burslam 17’, possibly 1712 as the clock’s hands point to twelve.The latest recorded dish bearing his initials is dated 1734, and he probably died in 1741.
Front composed of lead-glaze Decoration composed of slip
Inscription present: in rectangular frame with a square between the letters
Accession number: C.202-1928
Primary reference Number: 73019
Stable URI
Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2022)
"Sunflower Dish"
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Accession Number: PD.127-1973.53
Accession Number: 2006.1
Accession Number: C.1605-1928
Accession Number: GR.P.94
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