Pottery: Unidentified Harlow pottery
Earthenware, slip-trailed and lead-glazed
Red earthenware, thrown, the front slip-trailed in cream which appears yellow under the lead-glaze; reverse unglazed except for a diagonal streak. Rectangular fragment with par of a narrow rim with thickened edge on the underside, and part of tnhe slopng side. The rim has part of a slip-trailed border of two scalloped lines with the curves in opposite directions, forming ovals separated by a rhomboid. On the side is slip-trailed the word 'GOD; the last letter partly mising.
History note: Dug up in London; James Smith of Whitechapel; his sale, Sotheby's, 19 December 1901, part of lot 44, bought by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge.
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Length: 8.6 cm
Width: 6 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J.W.L.
17th Century, Mid#
Circa
1640
CE
-
1660
CE
The pottery formerly known as Metropolitan Slipare has been known since about 1960 to have come from potteries in the area of Harlow new town, see Documentation.
Decortation
composed of
slip
( cream)
Front
composed of
lead-glaze
Decoration
red Earthenware
Throwing : Red eathenware, thrown, the front slip-trailed in cream, and lead-glazed; the reverse unglazed
Inscription present: part of a larger inscription
Inscription present: rectangular paper stick-on label with cut top corners and red line border
Accession number: C.74-1928
Primary reference Number: 138116
Old object number: 3670.5
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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