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Pottery:
Unidentified Liverpool pottery
Printer:
John Sadler
Buff earthenware, tin-glazed bluish-white on the upper surface and transfer-printed in blue, perhaps from a wood block. An octagonal landscape featuring a cottage on the right, a garden temple on the left and a man, woman and child in the foreground, surrounded by a 'Louis XV' style border.
History note: Jonathan Horne, 66c Kensington Church Street, London, W8 4BY from whom purchased
Purchased with the G.H.W. Rylands Fund
Depth: 0.6 cm
Height: 12.6 cm
Width: 12.6 cm
Method of acquisition: Bought (1992-10-12) by Jonathan Horne Antiques
18th Century, Mid
George II
Circa
1756
CE
-
1757
CE
This is among a group of very early Liverpool printed tiles which were printed with either a woodblock or a glue-bat. Under magnification this one seems to have been printed from an engraved plate rather than a woodcut.
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( blue)
Front
composed of
tin-glaze
Accession number: C.82-1992
Primary reference Number: 15459
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 (2024) "Tile" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/15459 Accessed: 2024-11-09 01:32:34
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