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Pottery: Vauxhall Pottery (Possibly)
Tin-glazed earthenware, painted in blue with a basket of flowers and sprays of flowers and foliage
Buff earthenware with slightly blue tin-glaze, painted in blue. The circular plate has a narrow sloping rim, deep curved sides and almost flat centre, It is decorated in the middle with a basket of flowers in Chinese style with two flying insects surrounded by a circular frame resembling a twisted ribbon on a blue ground. On the rim and sides there are four sprays of flowers and foliage with two narrow bands below and one on the edge.
History note: Bought at an unrecorded date at 68, Bridge Street, Cambridge by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Diameter: 21.4 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
1720s
1730s
George I
George II
Circa
1720
CE
-
Circa
1740
CE
Made in London, possibly at Vauxhall Pottery
Decoration composed of high-temperature colour ( blue from cobalt)
buff
Earthenware
slightly bluish
Tin-glaze
Tin-glazing : Earthenware with slightly blue tin-glaze, painted in blue high temperature colour
Accession number: C.1366-1928
Primary reference Number: 71876
Old object number: 361
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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