Pottery: Lowerdown Pottery
Buff stoneware with iron-speckled buff glaze, painted in iron-brown and greyish-blue with a styulized plant spray
Buff stoneware, thrown, with a handle applied at right angles to the lip, and iron-speckled buff glaze, painted in iron-brown and greyish-blue; base unglazed. The pot has a broad base and tapering sides, which widen just below the rim and lip. The tubular handle has a closed rounded end pierced by a hole. The front is decorated with an iron brown plant spray of two leaves and composite spire-like flower flanked on each side by two curved greyish-blue stems. There is a broad iron-brown band round the rim. Originally part of a set with C.48 & A-2007 and C.49-2007.
History note: Unknown before donor
Given by P.H.D.S. Wikramaratna in memory of his brother P.H. Diananda
Height: 6.4 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (2007-11-19) by Wikramaratna, P. H. D. S.
20th Century, third quarter#
Elizabeth II
Production date:
circa
AD 1970
The mark is that of the Lowerdown Pottery which was run by David Andrew Leach (1911-2005) from 1956 to 2003. Jeremy Leach also worked there from 1970 to 1974 (?) and again from 1983-97/8 and from 2001
Decoration
composed of
cobalt
( probably)
iron
Base
Diameter 8 cm
Handle-rim
Width 12.3 cm
Handle
Accession number: C.50-2007
Primary reference Number: 158290
Entry form number: 976
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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