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Pottery: Unidentified Lambeth Pottery
Reddish-buff earthenware, press-moulded, tin-glazed and painted in blue. Oval with an integral convex border, concave on the underside, pierced at the top by two suspension holes. The flat area is decorated with the head and shoulders of a grinning man, and the border with foliage reserved in a blue ground broken by four oval panels containing flowers on a white ground. The back is inscribed 'G/IS/1739'.
History note: Bryan T. Harland collection, Croydon, London; his widow; sold Sotheby’s, 11 February, 1931, The Harland collections: the well-known collection of English Pottery; various works of art, first day, 11 February, lot 69, lot 41.
Purchased with the Glaisher Fund
Height: 23.8 cm
Width: 21 cm
Method of acquisition: Bought (1931-03-27) by Sotheby's
1730s
George II
Production date:
dated
AD 1738
Made in London, probably at Lambeth. The man's head may have been influenced by the representation of Laughter in Charles Le Brun, 'A Method to learn to Design the Passions, Proposed in a Conference on their General and Particular Expression', translated and engraved by John Williams (London 1934), pl. 27.
Decoration composed of high-temperature colour ( blue from cobalt)
reddish buff
Earthenware
with many pinholes on the reverse
Tin-glaze
Press-moulding
: Reddish-buff earthenware, press-moulded, tin-glazed and painted in blue
Tin-glazing
Accession number: C.10-1931
Primary reference Number: 71155
Glaisher Addition number: Gl. Add.24-1931
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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