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Production: Unidentified Staffordshire Pottery
Yellowish-buff earthenware, thrown and carved, coated wtih cream and dark brown slips, slip-trailed. and lead-glazed. The base is unglazed and has several smudgy marks in red slip. The stand is circular with vertical sides which slope outwards a little towards the top, and are pierced by five rectangular apertures. The top is slightly domed and is pierced by a central circular hole surrounded by five larger roughly circular holes. In the centre of the base, under the central hole, there is a fixed, shallow circular bowl. The exterior is coated in brown slip, and is decorated in cream slip on each of the side walls with a rectangle of trellis, and an outline round each of the apertures. The top has a circle of slip round each of the large holes and a circle of dots round the central hole, which is surrounded by five larger spots. The initials' W M' occupy two of the spaces between the large holes, and the date, 1 69 4 occupies the other spaces.
History note: William Turner, Purley Chase, Atherstone, Warwickshire; sold by him as part of his collection to Mr Stoner of Stoner & Evans, London; bought from Mr Stoner on 14 March 1911 for £24 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Diameter: 16.3 cm
Height: 8.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
17th Century, Late
William III and Mary II
Production date:
dated
AD 1694
: MaryII died on 28 December 1694
Decoration
composed of
slip
( cream and dark brown)
Visible Surfaces
composed of
lead-glaze
Base
Diameter 15 cm
Sides And Top
yellowish-buff Earthenware
Throwing : Yellowish-buff earthenware, thrown and carved, coated wtih cream and dark brown slips, slip-trailed. and lead-glazed. The base is unglazed and has several smudgy marks in red slip
Accession number: C.274-1928
Primary reference Number: 74003
Old object number: 3372
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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