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Mug: C.490-1928

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Object information

Current Location: In storage

Maker(s)

Factory: Unidentified Staffordshire factory

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Description

Off-white stoneware, thrown, turned and salt-glazed. Cylindrical, with an applied strap handle with a pinched lower terminal. The exterior has a plain horizontal band at the top and bottom and narrowly-spaced turned bands over the area between them

Notes

History note: Powell, antique dealer, Regent Street, Cambridge; sale held in the Corn Exchange, Cambridge, c. 1913; sold to Mr C. Smith, tailor and dealer in antiques of St Ives, from whom purchased for £1.5s. on 19 November 1915 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, Trinity College, Cambridge

Legal notes

Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest

Measurements and weight

Diameter: 10.7 cm
Height: 16.4 cm
Width: 13 cm

Acquisition and important dates

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

Dating

18th Century, third quarter#
Circa 1750 - 1770

Components of the work

Surface composed of salt-glaze
Body
Exterior

Materials used in production

cream-buff White stoneware

Techniques used in production

Salt-glazing

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Identification numbers

Accession number: C.490-1928
Primary reference Number: 75273
Old object number: 3721
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Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Sunday 24 October 2021 Last processed: Thursday 7 December 2023

Associated departments & institutions

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

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