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The Blind Carrying the Lame
Unidentified Liverpool pottery
(Pottery)
John Sadler and Guy Green
(Printer)
After
Dodsley
Buff earthenware, tin-glazed white on the upper surface and transfer-printed in brownish-black. The Blind Carrying the Lame; '88' border.
History note: Sotheby's, 13 November, 1907, part of lot 75; ought by Mr Button on behalf of Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Depth: 0.6 cm
Height: 12.7 cm
Width: 12.7 cm
Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed
(1928-12-07)
by
Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
Third quarter of 18th century
George III
Circa
1761
CE
-
1775
CE
Made in Liverpool and printed by J. Sadler and G. Green. The design is taken from Robert Dodsley, Select Fables of Aesop and Other Fabulists, 1761, see Documentation, Watney, 1972
Decoration composed of ceramic printing colour ( brownish-black) Front composed of tin-glaze
buff Earthenware
Accession number: C.1732-1928
Primary reference Number: 15441
Old object number: 2732.1
Stable URI
Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2022)
"The Blind Carrying the Lame"
Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/15441 Accessed: 2022-08-09 04:55:50
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Accession Number: HEN.M.126-1933
Accession Number: C.2238-1928
Accession Number: E.GA.5842.1943
Accession Number: 4078
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