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The Blind Carrying the Lame
Pottery:
Unidentified Liverpool pottery
Printer:
John Sadler and Guy Green
Dodsley
(After)
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
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, third quarter#
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
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "The Blind Carrying the Lame" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/15441 Accessed: 2024-12-22 18:51:21
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