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Plate: C.405-1928

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Object information

Current Location: In storage

Maker(s)

Pottery: Unknown

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Description

Earthenware, with slip-trailed decoration covered with yellowish lead glaze. Inscription: W/T&G/1793

Red earthenware, slip-trailed in white, and covered with yellowish lead-glaze, except for the area within the footrim. Circular, with a narrow sloping slightly concave rim, and shallow curved well. The unglazed base is recessed, and the chipped condition of the edge suggests that the dish may originally have been supported on a foot or footring. In the well there is a slip-trailed rectangular panel edged by a chain and divided into two by three wavy lines. In the upper part are the initials W/T & G and in the lower part, the date, 1793. The rim is decorated with a band of narrow leaf-shaped motifs.

Notes

History note: An unidentified female owner in Barrow-in-Furness; George Stoner by whom given on 7 February 1911 to Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, Trinity College, Cambridge

Legal notes

Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest

Measurements and weight

Width: 20.2 cm

Place(s) associated

  • Burton in Lonsdale ⪼ England

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr

Dating

18th Century, Late
George III
Production date: dated AD 1793

Note

The intials are probably those of a man and wife, W representing their surname. The provenance of this dish and its physical resemblance to two other items bought at the same time by the dealer, George Stonor, (Rackham, 1935, nos. 410 and 411) suggest that it was made in Lancashire.

Components of the work

Decoration composed of slip ( white)
Whole Except Base composed of lead-glaze ( yellowish)
Whooe Height 4 cm

Materials used in production

Earthenware

Techniques used in production

Throwing : Red earthenware, slip-trailed in white, and covered with yellowish lead-glaze, except for the area within the footrim

Inscription or legends present

  • Text: W/T & G
  • Location: On front of dish
  • Method of creation: Slip-trailed
  • Type: Initials
  • Text: 1793
  • Location: On front of dish
  • Method of creation: Slip-trailed
  • Type: Date

Inscription present: half of a rectangular label with cut corners and broad red printed border

  • Text: No 3353/Slipware dish inscribed/W/T & G ..../from Barrow in Furness/Given me Feb.7.1911.
  • Location: On base
  • Method of creation: Hand-written in black ink
  • Type: Label

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Identification numbers

Accession number: C.405-1928
Primary reference Number: 74941
Old object number: 3353
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Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Tuesday 25 February 2020 Last processed: Wednesday 13 December 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts

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