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Potter: Unidentified
Brown earthenware, press-moulded. slip-trailed in cream, and lead-glazed
Brown earthenware, press-moulded over a hump mould, decorated on the front with slip trailing in cream, and lead-glazed. The reverse is undecorated. The dish is circular with deep curved sides. The front is decorated with intersecting slip-trailing to create a design resembling loose darning. Some of the lines have been combed. The back is incised with the name and date 'W FIELD/1771'.
History note: Alfred Bilson; Billson sale, Sotheby’s on 21 December, 1908, part of lot 51; hammer price 9s.0d.; bought by Mr George Stoner on behalf of Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge.
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Diameter: 33.5 cm
Height: 7 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, third quarter
Production date:
dated
AD 1771
This dish may have been made in Staffordshire or elsewhere in the Midlands or north of England. The name on the back W. Field, might be the name of the potter
Decoration
composed of
slip
( cream)
Front Surface
composed of
lead-glaze
brown Earthenware
Press-moulding : Brown earthenware, press-moulded over a hump mould, decorated on the front with slip trailing in cream, with some combing, and lead-glazed. The reverse is undecorated.
Accession number: C.272-1928
Primary reference Number: 73970
Old object number: 2968
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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