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Factory:
Wedgwood, Josiah
Printer:
Green, Guy
Cream-coloured earthenware (Queen's ware), transfer-printed in black. Globular with leaf-wrapped spout, loop handle with a vertical ridge and kick up at the bottom, and circular lid with pierced, globular knob. On side there is a three-quarter length portrait of John Wesley preaching, flanked by ribbons sprouting foliage, inscribed on the left 'JOHN WESLEY, M.A. FELLOW', and on the right, 'LINCOLN COLLEGE OXFORD'. On the other side are the words 'Let your/Conversation be/as becometh the Gospel of/CHRIST' within a frame of rococo scrolls among which is a music-book and a volume entitled WATTS'S/ HYMNS' at the top; on the left, a cartouche with St Peter and a cock crowing; and on the right, a cartouche with the Good Samaritan; on the lid there are three winged cherub's heads.
History note: Sheldon Collection, Manchester; Cyril Andrade, London, who sold it at Puttick and Simpson, London, 10 October 1919, part of lot 71; purchased by Mr Stoner on behalf of Dr. J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 13.8 cm
Length: 20.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, Late
George III
Production date:
circa
AD 1775
Josiah Wedgwood, printed in Liverpool by Guy Green, who was a printer, and did not engrave the images. The inscription indicates that the pot was made after Sadler retired in September 1770.
Decoration composed of ceramic printing colour ( black)
Lead-glaze
Cream-coloured earthenware
Throwing
: Cream-coloured earthenware (Queen's ware), transfer-printed onglaze in black
Moulding
Lead-glazing
Accession number: C.730 & A-1928
Primary reference Number: 11711
Old object number: 4124
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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