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Cock
Production: Unidentified Staffordshire factory (Probably)
Cream earthenware painted in blue, pale green and brownish-orange under bluish lead-glaze
Cream earthenware, press-moulded, and painted in blue, pale green and orange under slightly blue tinted lead-glaze. The underside is open and the interior of the sides of the base are glazed. The cock stands with its legs on either side of a rock or tree stump support. This is coloured pale green, and the cock is randomly dabbed with blue and orange.
History note: Miss Kingsland, dealer at West Croydon, from whom purchased for £3 on 13 May 1915 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 9.5 cm
Length: 8.8 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, Late-19th Century, Early#
George III
Circa
1790
-
1810
Attributed to Staffordshire, but might be from elsewhere in northern England
Surface
composed of
lead-glaze
( slightly blue tinted)
Decoration
composed of
metallic oxides
Press-moulding : Cream earthenware, press-moulded, painted in blue, pale green, and orange under slightly blue tinted lead-glaze
Accession number: C.856-1928
Primary reference Number: 76235
Old object number: 4108
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 (2024) "Cock" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/76235 Accessed: 2024-11-24 16:17:48
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University of Cambridge}}
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