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Potter: Unidentified Ticknall Potter (Probably)
Earthenware baking dish decorated with a bird slip-trailed in cream on a brown ground, and lead-glazed
Buff earthenware, coated on the front with dark brown slip, and slip-trailed in cream under yellow lead glaze, which does not extend to the upper edge and has a mottled appearance over the cream slip; the reverse is undecorated. The dish is rectangular with rounded corners, and deep curved sides. The interior is decorated with a cock facing to the viewer's left, surrounded by rough leaf motifs, with a stylized flower in front of its beak, and a flying bird (?) over its back. Above, is a curving wavy line close to the edge of the dish, and on either side of the cock's legs, the date 18 60.
History note: R.W. Raper Collection, Trinity College, Oxford; bought by Mr Bateman, Gloucester Green, Oxford; bought for £12 on 22 September 1916 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 7.4 cm
Length: 42.3 cm
Width: 37.2 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
19th Century, third quarter
Production date:
dated
AD 1860
: dated
Dishes and baking dishes decorated in cream slip on a dark brown slip ground were made in several places in the Midlands and north of England during the second half of the eighteenth century. The characteristics of this one point to Ticknall as the most likely place of manufacture.
Decoration
composed of
slip
( dark brown and cream)
Front Surface
composed of
lead-glaze
( yellow)
Front
buff Earthenware
Press-moulding : Buff earthenware, press-moulded, coated with dark brown slip, and slip-trailed in cream, under yellow lead-glaze.
Inscription present: split between the cockerel's legs
Accession number: GL.C.52-1928
Primary reference Number: 77078
Glaisher MS Catalogue: 4129
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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