English Delftware wine bottle inscribed 'CLARIT 1647'

English Delftware. Wine bottle/wine jug. Probably made in Southwark, or possibly in Brislington. The jug has a low foot, a bulbous body, short slender neck with a projecting band round the top, and loop handle which is rounded on the exterior. On the front is the inscription CLARIT/ 1647 with a star on each side. Buff earthenware, thrown, with slightly concave underside to the foot, and a groove round its edge, and an applied handle, tin-glazed, and painted in blue; the glaze has been wiped off most of the base, height, whole, 11.6 cm, dated 1647. English.

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• Accession Number: C.1304-1928
• Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
• Aperture: f/13.0
• Focal length: 120
• Camera: Hasselblad H4D-31
• Photographer name: Amy Jugg
• Image height: 1024 pixels
• Image width: 857 pixels
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• Filesize: 90.93kB
• Exposure time: 1/125
• ISO Speed: 100
• Fnumber: 13/1
• Captured: 2014:03:03 15:34:43

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