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Pottery: Unidentified Netherlandish pottery
Reddish-buff earthenware, thrown, covered with tin-glaze speckled blue and manganese-purple outside, and buff glaze inside; the rim mounted in silver. The pear-shaped mug has a low foot, slightly convex underneath, and a projecting horizontal band level with the top of the handle which is rounded on the outside and flat on the inside. The silver mount round the rim has scalloped lower edge.
Reddish-buff earthenware, thrown, and tin-glazed except for the base, the exterior mottled overall in blue and manganese-purple. The mug has a tapering barrel-shaped body standing on a disk base, and a loop handle of D section. The silver mount with a scalloped lower edge.
History note: Mr Stoner, London, from whom purchased on 5 February (?), 1917 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 11.8 cm
Width: 6.6 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
16th Century, second half#
Circa
1550
CE
-
1600
CE
The Malling group of jugs and mugs named after a jug from East Malling Church in Kent were formerly attributed to London, but are now attributed to the Low Countries (Netherlands)
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( manganese and cobalt)
Body
Visible Surfaces
reddish-buff
Earthenware
Tin-glaze
Accession number: C.1375-1928
Primary reference Number: 71888
Old object number: 4117
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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