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Pottery: unidentified London pottery
Tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue in Oriental style
Buff earthenware, tin-glazed and painted in blue. The glaze is rather uneven on the back, and appears pinkish in places. Circular with a wide sloping rim, and curved sides, standing on a footring. The front is decorated with a circular medallion containing a vase of flowers standing on a table in a Chinese garden with two flying birds. On the rim there are twelve panels containing sprays of flowers reserved in formal scroll and plant ornament. All the decoration is slightly blurred. On the back within the footring, there is a running fox, over an *, with below, the initials' * I*E *' over the date '1720'.
History note: Francis Bennett-Goldney (1865-1918), Abbots Barton, Canterbury; sold Puttick & Simpson, 4 March 1920, English delft and ancient Roman pottery, Major F. Bennett-Goldney, lot 139; bought by Frank Stoner for Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge.
Dr J.W.L. Glaidsher Bequest
Diameter: 53.8 cm
Height: 9.2 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, Early#
George I
Production date:
dated
AD 1720
Decoration composed of high-temperature colour ( blue from cobalt)
buff
Earthenware
Tin-glaze
Inscription present: small asterisk before, between and after initials
Inscription present: rectangular with cut corners
Accession number: C.1358-1928
Primary reference Number: 71863
Old object number: 4778
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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