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Pottery:
Vauxhall Pottery
(Probaby)
Pottery:
Lambeth Pottery
(Probably)
Tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue with a bell and plant motifs
Buff earthenware, covered with greyish tin-glaze and painted in greyish-blue. Circular with a narrow sloping rim, slightly upturned at the edge, curved sides and flat centre. Decorated in the middle with a bell with a spray of foliage above and below, surrounded by two narrow concentric circles. On the rim there are two more circles and six plant motifs alternating with pairs of curved lines, and a single line round the edge.
History note: Mr. Wake, Fritchely, near Crich, Derbyshire; purchased for 12s. 6d. from Mr Wake's 'Catalogue' no. 300, No. 75 in June 1905 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Diameter: 19.9 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, second half#
George II
George III
1750
CE
-
1800
CE
Probably made in Lambeth or Vauxhall. Said to have been made for the Bell Inn, Parliament Street, Nottingham.
Decoration composed of high-temperature colour ( blue from cobalt oxide)
buff
Earthenware
greyish
Tin-glaze
Tin-glazing : Buff earthenware, moulded, tin-glazed greyish-white, and painted in blue high-temperature colour
Inscription present: formerly inscribed on the plate, no longer present
Accession number: C.1365-1928
Primary reference Number: 71875
Old object number: 2268
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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