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Woman
Production: Unidentified Staffordshire Pottery
White salt-glazed stoneware with blue decoration.
Off-white stoneware, press-moulded, with blue decoration and salt-glaze. The woman is bell shaped, with wide shoulders and skirt and her hands are folded in front of her. She wears a frilled cap touched with blue, and a dress, with indented diaper patterns on the stomacher and petticoat, which are painted more heavily in blue. The back of her skirt is pleated and there are V-shaped lines on the back of her bodice. Her eyes, eyebrows, and mouth are also coloured blue.
History note: Mr Leverett of Saffron Walden, from whom bought on 13 May 1913 for £14 by Dr Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge.
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Depth: 4.5 cm
Height: 14 cm
Width: 6.7 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, Mid
George II
Circa
1745
CE
-
1750
Decoration
composed of
cobalt oxide
Surface
composed of
salt-glaze
Body
white Stoneware
Accession number: C.810-1928
Primary reference Number: 76136
Old object number: 3726
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Woman" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/76136 Accessed: 2024-11-04 17:59:52
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