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Tin-glazed earthenware painted in flue with floral sprays, and with feather or palm motifs on the handles and spout
Buff earthenware, thrown, with applied handles, spout, and knob, tin-glazed and painted in dark blue. The porringer has a depressed globular body with a short everted neck supported on three squat feet. It has two handles, and between them on the shoulder, a spout with a rounded triangular mouth. The shallow domed cover has a slightly conical button-shaped knob. The sides and cover are decorated with arrangements of flowers and foliage, and on the handles and spout there are stylzed fern-like sprays. On the underside of the pot is the date 'AO 1793'.
History note: Mr Withers, Silver Street, Leicester, from whom purchased for £1.2s. 0d. at an unknown date by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Depth: 15.2 cm
Height: 12.1 cm
Width: 16.5 cm
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Method of acquisition: Bequeathed
(1928-12-07)
by
Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
Production date: dated AD 1793
Decoration composed of cobalt Body Handles
Accession number: C.2783 & A-1928
Primary reference Number: 74071
Old object number: 2269
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Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2022)
"Porringer"
Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/74071 Accessed: 2022-05-23 13:21:30
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