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Unidentified Staffordshire Pottery
(Production)
White salt-glazed stoneware scent bottle, decorated with Oriental garden scenes
Off-white stoneware, press moulded, and salt glazed. The bottle has a tall rectangular body with four panels, on a foot slightly smaller than the bottom, gently curved shoulders and a short cylindrical neck. The shoulders are decorated with incised lines and leaves, with rouletting around the neck to represent rope-work. One of the large panels depicts two Oriental figures under a parasol, while the other shows a garden scene, with trees and buildings. The smaller panels on the narrow ends are decorated with vines. Under the base are the scratched initials and date 'T.W. 1724'.
History note: Mr Jennings, Ipswich, from whom bought for £2 5s 0d. on 10 August 1918 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 10.4 cm
Length: 4.7 cm
Width: 3.5 cm
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Method of acquisition: Bequeathed
(1928-12-07)
by
Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
Early 18th Century
George I
Production date:
dated
AD 1724
This is one of the earliest pieces of white salt-glazed stoneware. The earliest is a two-handled cup with incised inscription: 'Mrs Mary Sandbach her cup anno dom 1720' now in the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri (inv. 41-23/675).
Surface composed of salt-glaze Body
white Stoneware
Accession number: C.532-1928
Primary reference Number: 75444
Old object number: 3899
Stable URI
Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2022)
"Scent bottle"
Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/75444 Accessed: 2022-07-01 18:31:24
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