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Production: Unidentified Staffordshire Potter (Probably)
Deep dish with lobed and fluted sides, decorated overall with marbled brown and cream slips under lead-glaze
Buff earthenware, press-moulded, coated with cream slip overall and marbled on the front in two shades of brown slip under yellowish lead-glaze, which appears brown where it has pooled in the well. The dish is circular with deep fluted and lobed sides with twenty-four arcs round the everted outer edge. It is thickly potted and heavy for its size, yet has two suspension holes pierced near the edge at the top. In the middle there is integrally moulded bearded mask within concentric beaded circles, and on each of the twenty-four lobes there is a small grotesque mask,
History note: Lady Harvey (née Magdalen Breadalbane Pringle; 1836-1913), Marsefield Gardens, South Hampstead, N.W; Mr Stoner; sold for c. £20 on June 17 1912 to Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge.
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Diameter: 34.6 cm
Height: 7.2 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
17th Century, Late
18th Century, Early
Circa
1680
-
1710
The form of this dish emulates metalwork. During the seventeenth century it was made in tin-glazed earthenware in the German states, the Netherlands, and England, with various types of decoration. A comparable slipware example with trailed slip decoration is in the Potteries Museum at Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent.
Decoration
composed of
slip
( cream and two shades of brown)
Surface
composed of
lead-glaze
( yellowish; tinged with brown from the slip below)
Front
Slip-coating
Lead-glazing
Press-moulding
Inscription present: rectangular white paper stick on label with upper corners cut and a double red printed line running round three sides
Inscription present: part of a rectangular white paper stick on label with cut upper corners and a wide red printed line running round the left, top, and right edges
Inscription present: circular white paper label with wording inside a circle and hand-written number in the middle
Accession number: C.308-1928
Primary reference Number: 74364
Old object number: 3536
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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