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View of a Brickyard
Pottery: Unidentified Lambeth Pottery
Tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue with a view of a brickyard, Chinese-style diaper border and red edge; reverse inscribed 'C/W.M underlined 1761'
Buff earthenware, tin-glazed and painted in blue and red. Circular with a slightly sloping rim, shallow well with curved sides, and recessed base. The front is decorated overall with a view of a brickyard, surrounded round the edge by a narrow border of Chinese diaper ornament. The edge is red. The base is decorated with a circular frame of scrolls and leaf sprays enclosing the inscription 'C/W.M' underlined '1761' and on the under-side of the rim with three meandering floral sprays.
History note: Bryan Harland; Mrs Bryan Harland; sold Sotheby’s, 11-12 February, 1931, The Harland Collections: the well-known collection of early English Pottery; various works of art, on first day lot 69
Bought with the Glaisher Fund
Diameter: 34.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bought (1931) by Sotheby's Glaisher Fund
18th Century, third quarter#
George III
Production date:
dated
AD 1767
Formerly attributed to Liverpool, but probably made by one of the Lambeth potteries or elsewhere in the London area
Decoration composed of high-temperature colours ( blue and red)
buff
Earthenware
Tin-glaze
Tin-glazing : Tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue, and red high-temperature (metallic oxide) colours, the latter on the rim only
Accession number: C.2-1931
Primary reference Number: 73196
Glaisher Addition number: Gl. Add.19-1931
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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