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Production: Unidentified Staffordshire factory
Stoneware, press-moulded with decoration in relief, pierced, and salt-glazed. The oval dish has a wavy shaped edge, slightly sloping rim, shallow sides and flat centre. The rim is decorated with six panels of basket work alternating with six pierced motifs, each comprising five diamond-shaped holes. On each side of these there is a nut and leaf in relief, and below them, on the sides of the well, two pears, flanked by two larger fruits and leaves.
History note: Mr Greenwood of York from whom purchased for £3 on 10 September 1917 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 2.2 cm
Length: 27.3 cm
Width: 23.4 cm
Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
Third quarter of 18th century
George II or George III
Circa
1750
CE
-
1770
CE
This dish was probably intended to be used for fruit or nuts in the dessert course of a dinner, but might also have been used as the stand for a basket
Surface
composed of
salt-glaze
Decoration
white Stoneware
Press-moulding
: Off-white stoneware, press-moulded with decoration in relief, pierced, and salt-glazed
Salt-glazing
Accession number: C.549-1928
Primary reference Number: 75491
Old object number: 4651
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2023) "Dish" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/75491 Accessed: 2023-06-11 03:07:13
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