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Pottery: Unknown
Slipware mug with silver mounts, the upper part slip-trailed with the initials 'DN' and date '1716'
Buff eathenware, thrown, decorated with combed and trailed dark brown and cream slip, and lead-glazed. Bell-shaped with a small strap handle, and silver mounts with scalloped edges on the rim and foot, the latter more deeply scalloped than the upper mount. The lowr part is alternately combed and feathered. Above this there is a horizontal brown band with white spots, the initials 'DN' between pairs of vertical brown lines with white spots, the date '1716 and above, a brown band with white spots below the rim
History note: Unidentified vendor; Frank Partridge, London, from whom purchased for £35 on 24 September 1925 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, Trinity College, Cambridge.
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 10.9 cm
Width: 11.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
17th Century, Early#
George I
Production date:
AD 1716
: dated; the mounts are probably later
Interior And Exterio
composed of
lead-glaze
( base unglazed)
Decoration
composed of
slip
( brown and white appearing yellow)
Mounts
composed of
silver
Rim
Diameter 9.4 cm
Body
Handle
Inscription present: The initials are between two pairs of vertical lines
Accession number: C.299-1928
Primary reference Number: 74273
Old object number: 4662
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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