IDENTIFIERS
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id:	75466
accession number:	C.541-1928

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Friday 14 January 2022

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: White stoneware, press-moulded and salt-glazed. The wall pocket is in the shape of a woman's face with a bow in the hair at the top. The lower part of the face is flanked by rococo scrolls, and stylized acanthus leaves with oval depressions radiate from the top of her head. Below there are acanthus leaves forming a point. The flat back has a hole for suspension on the viewer's right, another is now missing due to loss of the upper part.
title:	wall pocket

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Exhibition of English pottery held by Frederick Rathbone, Alfred Place, South Kensington, where purchased by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
collection:	J. W. L. Glaisher
creditline: Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/75466





TECHNIQUES
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off-white stoneware, press-moulded, and salt-glazed
press-moulding
TECHNIQUES
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salt-glazing

CATEGORIES
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category: stoneware
category: white salt-glazed stoneware

DATING
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creation date:	1755 - 1770
creation date earliest:	1755
creation date latest:	1770
culture:	18th Century, third quarter#
culture:	George II or George III

CREATORS
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maker: Unidentified Staffordshire factory

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 21

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 17



CITATIONS
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Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge
Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Ceramics, Catalogue of English Porcelain, Earthenware, Enamels and Glass collected by Charles Schreiber Esq., M.P., and the Lady Charlotte Elizabeth Schreiber, and presented to the Museum in 1884, Volume II, Earthenware
The Incomparable Art. English Pottery from the Thomas Greg Collection
The Illustrated Guide to Staffordshire Salt-glazed Stoneware
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