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Production: Unidentified Staffordshire Potter
Earthenware dish, slip-coated and slip trailed in dark brown and olive-green with a male head wearing a wig, with leaves above, and on the rim with a border of tulips and leaves
Pale red earthenware, thrown, the front coated with cream slip and slip trailed in dark brown and olive-green before lead-glazing. Circular with a very steeply sloping rim and curved well. The dish is thickly potted and heavy for its size. In the middle is a crudely trailed bewigged man's head with stylized tulips and leaves above and to right and left. On the rim there are nine formal tulips flanked by leaves all pointing outwards. All the motifs have dark brown outlines filled in with olive-green.
History note: Marc-Louis Solon (1835-1913); sold by Charles Butters & Sons, Hanley, 26-28 November 1912, Catalogue of the Pottery & Porcelain in the collection of L.M. Solon, first day, lot 87; purchased by Mr Stoner for £9.10 on behalf of Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Diameter: 41.7 cm
Height: 8 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
17th Century, Late or 18th Century, Early
Circa
1680
-
1710
Decoration
composed of
slip
( cream, dark brown, olive-green)
Front Surface
composed of
lead-glaze
( yellowish)
pale red Earthenware
Throwing : Pale red earthenware, thrown, coated on the front with cream slip, and slip trailed in dark brown and olive green before lead-glazing; reverse undecorated
Accession number: C.285-1928
Primary reference Number: 74135
Old object number: 3600
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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