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Potter: Unidentified Ticknall pottery (Possibly)
Brown earthenware dish, slip-trailed in cream with a horse, wavy vertical lines, and the date 1787 under lead glaze
Brown earthenware, moulded, the front decorated with cream slip trailing under lead glaze which does not extend to the edge; reverse unglazed. Rectangular with rounded corners, deep curved sides, and crinkled edge. In the middle is a saddled and harnessed horse trotting to the left with the date '1787' above. His body is decorated with feather combing. In front of him, and behind him, there is a vertical wavy line, and behind him, closer to the edge, a more open wavy line.
History note: An unidentified owner in Oswestry, Shropshire; G.H. Fennah's shop, God's Providence House, Watergate Row, Chester, where bought for £20 on 26 October 1911 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge.
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 9.8 cm
Length: 42.3 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, Late
George III
Production date:
dated
AD 1787
: dated
Dishes of this shape are often described as baking dishes. According to the vendor, Mr Fennah, in a letter to Glaisher, dated November 4th, 1911, the dish came from Oswestry (Shropshire), but this probaby referred to its provenance. The appearance of the dish, dark brown with cream decoration, points to Ticknall in Derbyshire, as the most likely place of manufacture, on the basis of fragments of comparable earthenware found there.
Front
composed of
lead-glaze
slip
Decoration
brown Earthenware
Press-moulding : Brown earthenware, press-moulded, with slip-trailed decoration under lead glaze.
Accession number: GL.C.49-1928
Primary reference Number: 77074
Glaisher MS Catalogue: 4889
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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