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Small Mug
Pottery: unidentified English pottery
Yellow-glazed earthenware decorated with silver (platinum) lustre
Earthenware covered with yellow lead-glaze and decorated wtih silver (platinum) lustre. Cylindrical with a recessed base and loop handle. The sides are decorated in lustre with seven horizontal sprays of leaves between rows of shallow interlacing arcading. There is a horizontal band level with the lower end of the handle and another band round the rim. Down the back of the handle there are seven horizontal strokes or splodges and a long leaf.
History note: Uncertain before donor, G.H.W. Rylands, Litt D, CBE, CH, King's College, Cambridge
Given by G.H.W. Rylands in memory of his mother, Betha Wolferstan Rylands
Height: 5 cm
Width: 6.1 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (1997-10-13) by Rylands, G.H.W.
19th Century, Early#
George III
George IV
Circa
1815
CE
-
1825
CE
Decoration
composed of
platinum lustre
Rim
Diameter 4.3 cm
yellow
Lead-glaze
Earthenware
Lead-glazing : Earthenware with yellow lead-glaze and decoration in silver (platinum) lustre
Accession number: C.89-1997
Primary reference Number: 76300
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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