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Production: Unidentified Staffordshire factory
White stoneware press-moulded, with integral relief decoration, and salt-glazed. Circular with a scalloped edge, gently sloping rim, and curved well, standing on a very slight footring. In the middle is a circular medallion with a rope edge, enclosing a triangular arrangement of rococo scrolls surrounded by tightly woven basketwork. Outside the medallion there are panels of trellis work and stripes surrounded by rococo scrolls, and pears, melons, apples, and nuts and leaves in relief. The border is decorated with larger telliswork pierced by sixteen groups of three rectangular piercings.
History note: Sotheby's, 23 April, 1926, part of lot 5; bought with a plate and a teapot for £2 by Hunt on behalf of Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 3 cm
Width: 24.1 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, third quarter#
George II or George III
Circa
1755
-
1770
Similar plates were produced in dark cream earthenware decorated with coloured glazes.
Surface composed of salt-glaze
off-white Stoneware
Inscription present: rectangular white paper stick-on label with cut corners and a dark blue line running round all edges
Accession number: C.558-1928
Primary reference Number: 75519
Old object number: 4865
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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Accession Number: E.278.1900
Accession Number: C.183B-1934
Accession Number: C.183C-1934
Accession Number: C.3-1969
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