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Pottery: Lambeth Pottery
Salt-glazed stoneware with brown dip, impressed ‘Simon Heaselwood/Ship/Woolpitt’, and excise or ale-measure mark WR crowned
Grey-buff stoneware, thrown, and turned, with freckled brown dip on the upper part, impressed inscription, and salt-glaze. Cylindrical, with turned bands above the base, applied strap handle with slight longitudinal depression, and slight kick at lower end. The upper parts of the body and handle are dipped brown, and on the front impressed in separate type is the inscription, 'Simon Heaselwood/Ship/Woolpitt'. To the left of the handle near the top is the circular impressed excise mark WR crowned.
History note: John Beazor, 33 Regent Street, Great Yarmouth, from whom purchased on 22 August 1922 for £3.10s by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, Trinity College, Cambridge/
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 16.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
19th Century, Early#
Circa
1815
CE
-
1830
CE
Presumably made for the Ship Inn, Woolpit between Bury St Edmund’s and Stowmarket, Suffolk. A Simon Hazelwood christened at Woolpit in 1786, may have been the owner of the mug.
Upper Part
composed of
slip
( dip)
Surface
composed of
salt-glaze
Body
Inscription
grey-buff Stoneware
Accession number: C.1212-1928
Primary reference Number: 71569
Old object number: 3889
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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