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Pottery: unidentified London pottery
Buff earthenware, covered with greenish-white tin-glaze, and painted in blue, Circular with a narrow sloping rim, curved sides and flat centre. Decorated with a geometrical pattern with stylized leaves and flowerheads.
History note: Provenance uncertain before Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge, but perhaps an unidentified vendor in Barrington near Cambridge, and then Mr Morley, a Cambridge dealer
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Diameter: 22.1 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, third quarter#
George II
George III
Circa
1750
CE
-
1770
CE
Decoration composed of high-temperature colour ( blue from cobalt)
buff
Earthenware
greenish white
Tin-glaze
Tin-glazing : Buff earthenware covered with greenish-white tin-glazed, and painted in blue high-temperature colour
Accession number: C.1363-1928
Primary reference Number: 71873
Old object number: 1572
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Plate" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/71873 Accessed: 2024-11-21 23:56:31
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University of Cambridge}}
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