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Factory: Unknown
White salt-glazed stoneware with scratch blue decoration. Part of a circular saucer with shallow curved sides, standing on a footring. The inside is decorated with part of a central circle of herringbone pattern, outside which is a five-petalled flower flanked by leaves. Round the edge two adjacent lines form a shallow scalloped border.
History note: Found in London in Tooley Street by G.F. Lawrence, and given by him to Bernard Rackham (1876-1964)
Bequeathed by Bernard Rackham
Height: 2.4 cm
Length: 8.3 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1964-03-12) by Rackham, Bernard
18th Century, Mid
Circa
1745
CE
-
1760
CE
Decoration
composed of
cobalt oxide
Surface
composed of
salt-glaze
off-white Stoneware
Press-moulding
: White stoneware, press-moulded, with incised decoration coloured blue (scratch blue), and salt-glaze
Salt-glazing
Inscription present: square white paper stick-on label
Inscription present: rectangular white paper stick-on label
Accession number: C.4.54-1964
Primary reference Number: 74888
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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