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Model cradle: C.512-1928

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Current Location: Gallery 27 (Glaisher)

Maker(s)

Production: Unidentified Staffordshire Pottery

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Description

White salt-glazed stoneware with incised decoration filled with dark brown slip

Off-white salt-glazed stoneware with incided decoration filled with dark brown slip or clay. The cradle is in the form of a rectangular box, at the head end of which is an arched hood with a triangular pediment behind it; and at the foot end, a triangular pediment. On each side of both pediments there is a projecting conical knob, and there is another in the middle of one side of the base, originally matched by another on the other side, now missing. Underneath the base there are two curved rockers. The exterior of the pediments and the top of the hood are decorated with geometrical designs, mainly composed of triangles bounded by outlines, and a line runs along the top of each side.

Notes

History note: Frederick Rathbone, Alfred Place, West Kensington, from whom bought for £28 on 28 March, 1913 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge

Legal notes

Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest

Measurements and weight

Height: 19.7 cm
Length: 23.5 cm
Width: 14 cm

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr

Dating

18th Century, Mid
George II
Circa 1730 CE - 1770 CE

Note

In the absence of dated examples, this cradle could have been made at any time between about 1730 and 1770

People, subjects and objects depicted

Components of the work

Decoration composed of slip ( dark brown)
Surface composed of salt-glaze
Knobs

Materials used in production

off-white Stoneware

Techniques used in production

Slab-building : Off-white stoneware, slab-built with moulded projections, incised decoration filled with dark brown slip, and salt-glaze

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Identification numbers

Accession number: C.512-1928
Primary reference Number: 75354
Old object number: 3661

Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Tuesday 30 April 2024

Associated departments & institutions

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

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