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Production: Unidentified Staffordshire Potter
Slipware dish decorated with a sun face surrounded by two rows of triangular rays in brown and dark brown slips
Dark buff earthenware, press-moulded over a hump mould to produce a design in relief with rouletted edges on the interior, coated with cream slip, and slip-trailed in brown and dark brown under yellowish lead-glaze. The exterior is undecorated. Circular with deep curved sides and a pie crust edge impressed with a circular tool or stick. In the middle, is a sun face within a dark brown circle with rouletted edges, surrounded by alternately brown and dark brown triangular rays, another dark brown circle with rouletted edges, and a border of dark brown triangular rays alternating with plain rays each of which has two brown spots over it.
History note: Sidney Hand, 6a Grafton Street, Bond Street, London, W. from whom bought for £20 on 13 May1910 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Diameter: 35.5 cm
Height: 6.2 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, first half
Circa
1700
-
1740
Decoration
composed of
slip
( cream, brown, and dark brown)
Inside Surface
composed of
lead-glaze
( yellowish)
Inside
dark buff Earthenware
Press-moulding : Dark buff earthenware, press-moulded over a hump mould to produce a relief design on the interior with rouletted edges, coated with cream slip, and slip trailed in brown and dark brown under yellowish lead-glaze. The reverse is undecorated. The edges were impressed with a circular tool or stick to produce a pie crust effect.
Accession number: C.203-1928
Primary reference Number: 73027
Old object number: 3120
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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