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Montague Close Pottery
(Pottery)
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Pickleherring Pottery
(Pottery)
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Rotherhithe Pottery
(Pottery)
Buff earthenware, tin-glazed and painted in blue. The jug stands on a disk base and has a bulbous body, a short narrow neck, and a strap handle with a V-shaped lower terminal. The front is painted with a shield-shaped cartouche enclosing the initials and date ' B/R.M/1640'
History note: Said to have belonged to a farmer in the West Country; bought an unknown purchaser who sold it to Mrs Charlotte E.I. Watson, from whom purchased for £15 on 18 January, 1917 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge.
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 19 cm
Height: 7½ in
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed
(1928-12-07)
by
Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
Second quarter of 17th century
Charles I
Production date:
dated
AD 1640
The Pickleherring, Montague Close and Rotherhithe potteries were operating in Southwark at the date of manufacture
Decoration composed of cobalt Body
buff Earthenware Tin-glaze
Accession number: C.1299-1928
Primary reference Number: 71747
Old object number: 3862
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Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts
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