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Factory: Unidentified Staffordshire factory
White salt-glazed stoneware
Creamy-white stoneware, thrown and turned, with applied handle, and salt-glaze. Squat pear-shaped body with pinched lip, and at right angles to it, a tapering cylindrical handle with a small hole on the underside, and a rounded finial There is a turned band round the rim, and another level with the top of the handle
History note: Mr Bateman of Oxford from whom purchased on 22 September 1916 for £2 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 4.7 cm
Width: 11.5 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
1745
-
1760
Possibly for pouring coffee
Surface
composed of
salt-glaze
Body
Inscription present: rectangular with cut corners and blue line on the upper sides
Accession number: C.492-1928
Primary reference Number: 75288
Old object number: 4132
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2023) "Pipkin" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/75288 Accessed: 2023-03-29 12:38:18
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