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Pottery: unidentified London pottery (Probably)
Buff earthenware, thrown, tin-glazed, and painted in blue. The underside is only partly glazed. Cylindrical with everted rim, and slightly concave base. The exterior is decorated with groups of horizontal stripes, three below the rim and four above the base.
History note: According to the vendor, excavated in a court off Dean Street, Soho; Mr Hugh Sadler, 14 Kilburn Square, London, who sold it on 25 June 1910 to Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Diameter: 11 cm
Height: 9.8 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J.W.L.
18th Century, Late
19th Century, Early#
Circa
1780
CE
-
Circa
1820
CE
As the jar was excavated in London it seems likely to have been made there
Decoration composed of high-temperature colour ( blue from cobalt)
underside only partly
Tin-glaze
Earthenware
Throwing
: Buff earthenware, thrown, tin-glazed except for part of the base, and painted in blue
Tin-glazing
Accession number: C.77-1928
Primary reference Number: 197233
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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