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The Blind Carrying the Lame: C.1732-1928

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Object information

Current Location: In storage

Titles

The Blind Carrying the Lame

Maker(s)

Pottery: Unidentified Liverpool pottery
Printer: John Sadler and Guy Green
Dodsley (After)

Entities

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Description

Buff earthenware, tin-glazed white on the upper surface and transfer-printed in brownish-black. The Blind Carrying the Lame; '88' border.

Notes

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

Legal notes

Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest

Measurements and weight

Depth: 0.6 cm
Height: 12.7 cm
Width: 12.7 cm

Place(s) associated

  • Liverpool ⪼ Lancashire ⪼ England

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr

Dating

18th Century, third quarter#
George III
Circa 1761 CE - 1775 CE

Note

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

School or Style

Rococo

People, subjects and objects depicted

Components of the work

Decoration composed of ceramic printing colour ( brownish-black)
Front composed of tin-glaze

Materials used in production

buff Earthenware

References and bibliographic entries

Identification numbers

Accession number: C.1732-1928
Primary reference Number: 15441
Old object number: 2732.1
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Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Tuesday 25 February 2020 Last processed: Friday 16 February 2024

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts

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