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Factory: Unidentified Staffordshire factory
White salt-glazed stoneware, moulded in relief with the words BARTHOLOMEW FULLER OF TRINITY COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE
Off-white stoneware, moulded, and salt-glazed. Circular with wavy gadrooned edge, sloping rim, shallow sloping sides and flat centre. On the rim in relief are the words 'BARTHOLOMEW FULLER OF TRINITY COLLEGE CAMBRIDGE'
History note: Dug up during alterations to staircases L,M,and N in Old Court, Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1908
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 2.5 cm
Width: 23.4 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, third quarter#
George III
Circa
1765
CE
-
1770
CE
This is the earliest known plate bearing the name of a Cambridge College. Bartholomew Fuller, the outside caterer or cook of Trinity College was a common councillor of the town corporation, leased land in the nearby village of Little Wilbraham in 1763 and 1769, and took on an apprentice in 1768. His death was recorded in the Cambridge Chronicle for Saturday, 7 April 1770 as having taken place 'On Sunday last'. The relief lettering around the rim was moulded at the same time as the plate, showing that Fuller must have placed an order with the factory, either in person or through a local shopkeeper. Inscriptions painted in enamel-colours could have been applied to any plate in production, and not necessarily in the factory.
Surface composed of salt-glaze
Press-moulding
: Off-white stoneware, press-moulded, and salt-glazed
Salt-glazing
Accession number: C.552-1928
Primary reference Number: 75505
Old object number: 3220
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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