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Pale buff earthenware tin-glazed dark blue inside and outside and painted in white; the base is unglazed. Part of the side and base of a pot with an everted rim. The inside is plain blue. the exterior is painted in white with an Oriental-style design, probably part of a landscape.
History note: Found in an excavation in London by G.F. Lawrence, Wandsworth, by whom given to Bernard Rackham (1876-1964)
Bequeathed by Bernard Rackham
Height: 7.2 cm
Width: 6.9 cm
Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1964-03-12) by Rackham, Bernard
Late 17th Century
1680
CE
-
1700
CE
This type of English delftware was probably imitating blue-glazed tin-glazed earthenware from Nevers in France which was decorated in white and white and yellow. It may have been made in Lambeth. Another fragment of this type of ware is C.4.67-164.
Not Base
composed of
tin-glaze
( dark blue)
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colour
( white)
Accession number: C.4.60-1964
Primary reference Number: 74894
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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