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Jug: Gl.C.40-1928

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Object information

Current Location: Gallery 27 (Glaisher)

Maker(s)

Production: Unidentified Harlow pottery (Probably)

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Description

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.

Notes

History note: Purchased at the London Opinion Curio Club, 107 Regent Street, London, 3 June 1908 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge

Legal notes

Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest

Measurements and weight

Height: 28.4 cm
Width: 18.5 cm

Place(s) associated

  • Harlow ⪼ Essex ⪼ England

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr

Dating

17th Century, Mid#
Charles I
Commonwealth
Charles II
Circa 1635 CE - 1665 CE

Note

The development of the New Town at Harlow in Essex during the 1950s led to the discovery of kiln sites and great quantities of sherds at Latton Street and Potter Street in the parish of Latton. Some sherds matched mid seventeenth-century pottery previously known as Metropolitan Slipware because much of it had been found in the City of London. Its place of manufacture had been unknown but can now be identified as the Harlow area.The slip-trailed motifs on this jug correspond to decoration on sherds found at Potter Street.

Components of the work

Body
Decoration

Materials used in production

not base Lead-glaze
Earthenware

Techniques used in production

Lead-glazing

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Identification numbers

Accession number: Gl.C.40-1928
Primary reference Number: 77061
Glaisher MS Catalogue: 2822
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Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Monday 19 June 2023 Last processed: Wednesday 13 December 2023

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Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts

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