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Production: Unidentified Pottery
Earthenware, press-moulded over a hump mould, coated on the front with cream slip, and slip-trailed in pale and dark brown under lead glaze. The reverse is undecorated. Circular with deep curved sides and a crinkled edge created by adjacent impressions of an oval ended implement. A large cat trailed in the two browns occupies the middle of the dish, with a dark brown coiling ribbon on each side of it.
History note: A Yorkshire dealer who sold it to Mr Richards of Nottingham; sold by him for £8.10s.0d. at the end of 1906 to Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge.
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Diameter: 36 cm
Height: 7 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, second half
Circa
1750
CE
-
1800
CE
The attribution of this dish is uncertain. When it was acquired by Dr Glaisher he considered that it might have been made at Cockpitt Hill near Derby. It was attributed by Bernard Rackham (1935) to Bolsover on the grounds of similarity with sherds of slipware found there. Dishes with simple designs using dark brown slip on a cream ground or cream on a dark brown ground are presently attributed to the Midlands or north of England, if they don't present definite indications of a specific centre.
Decoration
Front
Accession number: GL.C.55-1928
Primary reference Number: 77081
Glaisher MS Catalogue: 2672
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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