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Potter: Unidentified Staffordshire Potter
Slipware dish slip-trailed with figures of a man and woman, each holding a flower, surrounded by a trellis border broken at the top by their names, THoMAS; :SARAϽT(both Ss back to front).
Pale red earthenware, thrown, the front coated in white slip, and slip-trailed in brown, dark-brown and white, and lead-glazed. The reverse is undecorated, but appears to have been given a thin wash of dark brown slip around the sides and rim. The dish is circular with a broad sloping and warped rim, deep curved sides and flat centre. In the middle are a standing man and woman, each holding a flower, with a stylized leaf on each side of them, and two leaves and a bud below the man. The rim is decorated with trellis pattern in two shades of brown, broken at the top by a panel slip trailed with their names, THoMAS; :SARAϽT(both Ss back to front). The outlines of the figures, leaves, flowers, and lettering are jewelled with dots of white slip.
History note: Christie's, ; Mr George Stoner of Stoner & Evans, London, from whom purchased for £6 on 3 June 1907 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge.
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 6.5 cm
Width: 45.7 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
17th Century, Late
Circa
1670
CE
-
1690
CE
Front
composed of
slip
( cream, brown and dark brown)
lead-glaze
( yellowish)
Decoration
pale red Earthenware
Throwing : Pale red earthenware, thrown, the front coated in white slip, and slip-trailed in brown, dark-brown and white, andcovered with yellowish lead-glaze. The reverse is undecorated, but appears to have been given a thin wash of dark brown slip around the sides and rim.
Inscription present: the Ss are back to front
Accession number: C.218-1928
Primary reference Number: 73175
Old object number: 2663A
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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