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Potter: Unidentified Ticknall Potter (Probably)
Brown earthenware, press-moulded, the front coated with dark brown slip, with slip-trailed and marbled decoration in white under lead glaze which does not extend to the upper edge; reverse unglazed. The dish is rectangular with rounded corners, crinkled edge, and deep curved sides. It is decorated in the middle with a cock with a marbled body walking to the left, with the date '1794' below, and a triangular arrangement of dots above. Behind the cock there is a triangular area of marbling, reminiscent of a pig's snout. Around the upper edge of the sides there is a border of three wavy lines which are very much broken so as to be indistinct.
History note: Cunliffe & Co., Hanway Street, London, from whom purchased for £6 on 13 April 1918 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge.
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 7 cm
Length: 39.3 cm
Width: 35.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, Late
Production date:
dated
AD 1794
: dated
Dishes with a very dark brown slip ground and white or cream slip-trailed decoration were made in several places in the Midlands in the second half of the eighteenth century, but the characteristics of this baking dish point to Ticknall as the most likely place of manufacture. The dish is extremely heavy for its size.
Front Surface
composed of
lead-glaze
Decoration
composed of
slip
Front
Press-moulding : Earthenware, press-moulded, with slip-trailed and marbled decoration under lead glaze
Inscription present: rectangular white paper stick on label with cut corners and a blue line round the edge
Accession number: GL.C.50-1928
Primary reference Number: 77075
Glaisher MS Catalogue: 4661
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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