Pottery: Unidentified Harlow pottery
Earthenware,
Thrown red earthenware, the front slip-trailed in cream and lead-glazed, the reverse unglazed. Originally circular with thick walls, and thickened rim on the underside, sloping sides and flat base. With wavy lines trailed round the outer edge. Slip-trailed with the word 'GODE', with below a stem flanked by curling tendrils on each side of which is a vertical wavy line.
History note: Dug up in London. James Smith Collection, Whitechapel, London; sold Sotheby's, 19 December 1901, James Smith sale, in a box of fragments; Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Length: 13.5 cm
Width: 13 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J.W.L.
17th Century#
Charles I
Production date:
AD 1638
Part of a dish with C.72A-1928, bearing the slip-trailed inscription '1638 FEAR GODE', described as 'Metropolitan slipware' on accession but reattributed to a pottery in the Harlow area.
Decoration
Accession number: C.72B-1928
Primary reference Number: 138114
Old object number: 3670
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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