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Heart-shaped Pickle Tray
Production: Unidentified Staffordshire factory
White stoneware, press-moulded in the shape of a heart with integral relief decoration, and salt-glazed. The interior is decorated in the middle with an anthemion motif and two scrolling lines borderd by a double heart-shaped outline, and with a border of anthemion motifs, scrolling lines and loops.
History note: Sotheby's, 13 November, 1907, part of lot 66; the lot sold for £7.10s.0d. to Mr Phillips of Hitchin, from whom purchased for £1.12s. 6d. on 5 December 1907 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Length: 10.8 cm
Width: 8.9 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, Mid
George II
Circa
1745
-
1755
Heart-shaped pickle or sweetmeat trays are known to have been made by Thomas and John Wedgwood of the Big House, Burslem from their crate-book preserved in the Potteries Museum, Hanley.
Surface composed of salt-glaze
white Stoneware
Press-moulding : White stoneware, press-moulded with integral relief decoration and salt-glazed
Accession number: C.536-1928
Primary reference Number: 75456
Old object number: 2734
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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