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Pottery: Indio Pottery
White salt-glazed stoneware tea caddy with scratch-blue plant decoration and inscriptions 'Elizabeth Lamble/1768' and 'Bohea'
Greyish-white stoneware, slab-built, with scratch-blue decoration, and salt-glaze. Rectangular with flat shoulders and a short cylindrical neck. One long side is scratched with the name and date, 'Elizabeth Lamble/1768' with a spray of leaves and fruits above and an arrangement of roughly-drawn foliage below. The opposite long side is scratched with the name of the tea, 'Bohea' and round the edge with a border scallops with stylized buds or leaves in the corners. One of the short sides is scratched with a floral spray, and the other has an all over trellis diaper pattern. On the shoulder there is a leaf in each corner.
History note: 'A poor person'; sold through Miss Wordingham, 40 Tennison Road, Cambridge, on 7 March 1928 for £6 to Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge.
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 12.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, third quarter#
George III
Production date:
dated
AD 1768
: dated
Decoration
composed of
cobalt oxide
Surface
composed of
salt-glaze
Slab-building : White salt-glazed stoneware with scratch-blue decoration
Accession number: C.511-1928
Primary reference Number: 75345
Old object number: 4966
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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