Factory: Enoch Wood
Pale cream/off-white earthenware, moulded and covered with lead-glaze tinted slightly blue. Two leaves with serrated edges back to back, with on one side, two six-petalled flowers, applied to the end of a branch, just visible between the bases of the leaves.
History note: Found with other fragments and figures beneath the pavement on the south side of Burslem old Town Hall (oposite the Leopard Inn) during Mr Bemrose's excavation in April 1938; exchanged with other fragments for a copy of Rackham's Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection, 1935.
Given by Stoke-on-Trent Museum in exchange for a copy of the Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection
Length: 3.5 cm
Width: 2.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Exchanged (1943) by The Potteries Museum and Art Gallery
1820s
George IV
Circa
1820
CE
-
1830
CE
This fragment would have been attached to the branch of a tree behind a figure
pale cream
Earthenware
tinted slightly blue
Lead-glaze
Moulding : Pale cream/off-white earthenware press-moulded leaves with two applied flowers on one side, applied to the end of a branch, visible at the bottom of the leaves
Accession number: EC.35.5-1943
Primary reference Number: 187526
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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