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Production: Unidentified Harlow pottery (Probably)
Red earthenware, thrown, with cream slip-trailed decoration under lead glaze. Oviform body, with a short flaring neck and loop handle. The body is decorated with formal fronds and fleur-de-lys, and the neck has interlaced wavy lines.
History note: Purchased by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher at the London Opinion Curio Club, 107 Regent Street, London, 3 June 1908.
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 28.4 cm
Width: 18.5 cm
Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
Mid 17th century
Charles I
Commonwealth
Charles II
Circa
1635
CE
-
1665
CE
Body
Decoration
not base
Lead-glaze
Earthenware
Accession number: Gl.C.40-1928
Primary reference Number: 77061
Glaisher MS Catalogue: 2822
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 (2023) "Jug" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/77061 Accessed: 2023-06-11 03:04:28
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Accession Number: E.P.287
Accession Number: E.36.1903
Accession Number: E.9.1909
Accession Number: Loan Ant.103.97
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