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Pottery: Unidentified Staffordshire Pottery
White salt-glazed stoneware, in the form of a globular double bowl with double walls, the outer wall pierced with interlaced circles, standing on a high fluted foot. From the shoulders spring four slightly scrolled handles meeting over the middle, and surmounted by a stem of flowers
History note: Mrs Cater, Colchester; sold Sotheby's, 23 July 1925, Porcelain, Pottery & Glass (Mrs Cater), lot 47; sold for £13 to Hunt bidding on behalf of Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, Trinity College, Cambridge.
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 15.2 cm
Width: 6.4 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
Third quarter of 18th century
Circa
1750
CE
-
1760
CE
This is a very rare example of a double sided and pierced object in white salt-glazed stoneware. Its function is uncertain. It might have been used as a vase for a small posy of flowers, or possibly for container for salt at table
Surface
composed of
salt-glaze
Foot
Diameter 5.7 cm
Flowers
Handles
Sides
Accession number: C.494-1928
Primary reference Number: 75292
Old object number: 4577
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2023) "Vase" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/75292 Accessed: 2023-06-05 02:23:58
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