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Production: Malkin, Samuel
Earthenware dish slip-coated on the inside, and decorated with trailing and feathering under lead-glaze
Buff earthenware, press-moulded over a hump mould, coated in cream slip, slip-trailed in brown and feathered, under yellowish lead-glaze; the exterior is undecorated. The dish is circular with deep curved sides and a crinkled edge, produced by making adjacent impressions with an oval ended implement. The interior has a pair of slightly raised bands running round it about 2.5 cm below the outer edge, and in the middle scarcely visible under the slip coating, the initials and date 'SM/1727'. The entire surface is decorated with three areas of wavy feathering alternating with two wide and two narrow bands of fine trailed lines which can be viewed as horizontal or vertical.
History note: Frank Smith, 146 Wellington Road, Withington, Manchester, from whom purchased for £22.10s.0d. on 22 April 1926 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Diameter: 35.6 cm
Height: 6.2 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, first half
Circa
1720
-
1740
Decoration
composed of
slip
( cream, brown)
Inside Surface
composed of
lead-glaze
( yellowish)
Inside Decoration
buff Earthenware
Press-moulding : Buff earthenware, press-moulded over a hump mould, coated in cream slip, slip-trailed in brown and combed under yellowish lead-glaze
Accession number: C.300-1928
Primary reference Number: 74302
Old object number: 4854
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2025) "Dish" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/74302 Accessed: 2025-04-05 03:38:11
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