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Agateware dish slip coated on the front, and decorated with an incised and rouletted bird and border
Brown and buff agateware, thrown, coated on the front with cream slip, and decorated with incising and rouletting under yellowish lead-glaze. The dish is circular with a narrow rim, deep curved sides and flat base. The well is decorated with a bird incised through the slip to produce dark outlines, and having two short striped horizontal bands and a a longer rouletted band across its body. The rim is decorated with two different impressed and rouletted motifs repeated six times, separated by twelve small rectangles incised through the slip to reveal the dark body below.
History note: M.L. Solon Collection; Mr F.J. Morrall, 48 Liverpool Street, Sroke on Trent, from whom bought for £6.10s. on 24 June 1919 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge.
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
32.5
Height: 6.4 cm
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Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, Mid to Late
Circa
1750
-
1780
This dish was probably made in north Staffordshire. Comparable dishes with simply drawn birds incised through the slip coating are in the Victoria and Albert Museum (C.46-1933) and in the Potteries Museum, Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent (1947 P60). They probably date from the mid to late eighteenth century.
Front Surface
composed of
slip
( cream)
Decoration
Front
Surface
except for small area of the base
Lead-glaze
Agateware
Throwing (pottery technique) : Buff and brown agateware, coated on the front with cream slip, incised and rouletted, and lead-glazed overall except for a small area on the base
Accession number: C.321-1928
Primary reference Number: 74508
Old object number: 4043
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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