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Pottery:
Unidentified Southwark Pottery
(Probably)
Pottery:
Brislington Pottery
(Perhaps)
Tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue with an Oriental landscape and inscription ‘IAM/1685’
Buff earthenware, tin-glazed and painted in blue. The circular base of the candlestick is domed and has nine bosses pushed up from below. The candlestick is cylindrical with a pie-crust edge to the nozzle (mostly lost), and a drip pan above its junction with the foot. The candlestick is decorated with rows of upward and downward pointing Vs separated by dotted bands. The base is decorated with a Chinese man seated in an Oriental landscape, and with the inscription ‘IAM/1685’.
History note: Brian T. Harland Collection, Croydon; Fenton, Oxford Street; bought from Mr Fenton on 12 September 1918 for £31.10s by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 22.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
17th Century, Late
Charles II
James II
Production date:
dated
AD 1685
Probably made in London, at Southwark, or perhaps at Brislington.
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colour
( blue)
Foot
Diameter 18 cm
Column
buff
Earthenware
Tin-glaze
Accession number: C.1340-1928
Primary reference Number: 71835
Old object number: 4693
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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