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Aldgate Pottery
(Pottery)
Pickleherring Pottery
(Pottery)
Buff earthenware, tin-glazed off-white on the upper surface and painted in blue, green, yellow and manganese. In the middle, a stag couchant to left within a frame comprising one manganese circle flanked by pairs of blue concentric circles; in each corner, a debased fleur-de-lis or trefoil leaf. In the top right and lower left corners there is a hole.
History note: From a house in Saffron Walden. Purchased in Saffron Walden by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Depth: 2.0 cm
Height: 13.1 cm
Width: 13.1 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
Late 16th Century
Early 17th Century
Elizabeth I
James I
Circa
1571
CE
-
Circa
1620
CE
Formerly attributed to the Netherlands, where similar medallion tiles were made, but probably English, made either at Aldgate between c. 1571-1615 or at Pickleherring pottery in Southwark ac. 1620
Decoration composed of high-temperature colours ( blue, green, yellow and manganese) Front composed of tin-glaze
Accession number: C.2840E-1928
Primary reference Number: 15815
Old object number: Gl. 599
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)
"Paving tile"
Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/15815 Accessed: 2022-05-29 02:35:24
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