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Production: Unknown
Earthenware, slip-coated with incised decoration under lead glaze. Bulbous body, neck pinched into a lip at the front, with a loop handle. On the front a heart and crossed arrows with the words 'cupids Dart wounded my hart' and the date 1728. Below, a tulip spray between two birds; at the sides thistle and tulip sprays. Two birds above compartments enclosing the initials IS and a thistle below the handle. Round the shoulders, the following inscription: 'When you your frinds you do inuite there hearts and for to chear/O then i pray make use of me and fill me with strong beer/And when that you togather sitt yourselues for to diuert Then fill your cup and drink about a health with all your heart'.
History note: Mr Mallett, London; from whom purchased for £38 on 1y May 1924 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 33.0 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, Early#
George II
Production date:
dated
AD 1728
Decoration
composed of
slip
Body
Accession number: Gl.C.61-1928
Primary reference Number: 77089
Glaisher MS Catalogue: 4420
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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