Current Location: Gallery 27 (Glaisher)
Maker(s)
Production:
Unidentified Staffordshire Pottery
Entities
Categories
Description
White salt-glazed stoneware with eyes painted in brown slip.
White salt-glazed stoneware flower holder in the shape of a woman's face surrounded by acanthus foliage
White stoneware, press-moulded and salt-glazed. The front of the flower holder is in the form of a woman's face with a bow over her forehead, and a scroll on each side of her cheeks, surrounded by acanthus foliage, pierced by three holes at the top. Below her chin there are three leaves terminating in a point. The woman's eyes are painted with dark brown slip. The flat back is lower at the top than the front, and has a wavy edge. Below this there are two circular suspension holes.
Notes
History note: A house near Watford; Williams, Wardour Street, London, where purchased on 27 May 1914 for £2.10s. by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Legal notes
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Measurements and weight
Height: 17.8 cm
Width: 10.2 cm
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed
(1928-12-07)
by
Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
Dating
18th Century, third quarter
George II or George III
Circa
1755
-
1770
Note
Perhaps made by Thomas Whieldon's factory at Fenton Vivian, or Thomas and John Wedgwood, the Big House, Burslem, whose sales account book mentions in 1770 the sale to Richard Franks of Bristol of '8 large faces, 6 Midle, 2 least, 8 Flower Horns, 2/- per pair £1.4.0. Flower horns were flat-backed wall pockets for flowers, so it seems likely that the 'faces' were for a similar purpose and resembled this example and C.540-1928 and C.541-1928.
School or Style
Rococo
Components of the work
Eyes
composed of
slip
( dark brown)
Surface
composed of
salt-glaze
Front
Materials used in production
Stoneware
Techniques used in production
Salt-glazing
Inscription or legends present
Inscription present: almost square white paper stick-on label with dark blue line border on three sides
- Text: No 3704/White salt glaze/wall pocket, with/a woman's face/& leaf below./b. in Lon (don)/ May 27 1914
- Location: On back
- Method of creation: Hand written
- Type: Label
References and bibliographic entries
Identification numbers
Accession number: C.542-1928
Primary reference Number: 75473
Old object number: 3704
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Saturday 6 August 2011
Updated: Monday 29 April 2024
Last processed: Tuesday 15 July 2025
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
