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Plate: C.1581B-1928

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Current Location: In storage

Maker(s)

Pottery: Lambeth High Street Pottery
Proprietor of pottery: Griffith, Abigail

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Description

Buff earthenware, tin-glazed bluish-white, and painted in blue. Circular wth a sloping rim, sloping sides, and flat centre with recessed base. The front is decorated overall with a shepherd and shepherdess in a landscape with a ruined building with arches next to a tree on the left.

Notes

History note: One of six plates in Plashwood's Sale; bought by Mr Johnson, 4 Angel Hill, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk who sold it about 1894 to Dr J.W.L. Glaisher FRS. Trinity College, Cambridge

Legal notes

Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest

Measurements and weight

Diameter: 22.8 cm

Acquisition and important dates

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

Dating

18th Century, third quarter
Circa 1770 CE - Circa 1775 CE

Note

The figures were probably derived from a scene printed on the title plate of Morceaux de caprices a divers usages, engraved by Charles Albert de Lespilliez (1723-1796) after Jean François de Cuvilliés (1695-1768), c. 1770. The shepherd is holding a houlette, a staff with a cup-shaped end which was used for throwing stones at dogs or wolves which threatened the flock.

School or Style

Rococo

Components of the work

Decoration composed of high-temperature colours ( blue from cobalt)

Materials used in production

bluish-white Tin-glaze
buff Earthenware

Techniques used in production

Moulding : Buff earthenware, moulded tin-glazed and painted in blue; three point marks on the reverse suggest that the plate may have been fired on a trivet
Tin-glazing

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Identification numbers

Accession number: C.1581B-1928
Primary reference Number: 197220
Old object number: 364

Audit data

Created: Wednesday 19 June 2013 Updated: Wednesday 26 July 2023

Associated departments & institutions

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

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