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Unidentified Staffordshire factory
(Factory)
White salt-glazed stoneware with applied reeded handle, and three moulded and applied feet. Bulbous body with incurved cylindrical neck flaring towards the rim which is cut with incurved scallops and has a rounded projecting lip. The handle is ear-shaped and has a kick at the lower end. The three feet are of ill defined lion's mask and paw form
History note: Mr Rathbone, Alfred Place West, South Kensington, from whom purchased on Nov 21, 1918 for £8 (reduced from £10.10) by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 12.5 cm
Width: 10.8 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
(1928-12-07)
by
Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
Mid 18th Century
George II
Circa
1750
CE
-
1760
CE
Surface composed of salt-glaze Body Feet Rim
white Stoneware
Accession number: C.487-1928
Primary reference Number: 75264
Old object number: 3742
Stable URI
Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2022)
"Milk jug"
Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/75264 Accessed: 2022-07-02 08:57:53
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