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Pottery:
unidentified London pottery
(Possibly)
Pottery:
Brislington Pottery
(Possibly)
Pottery:
Unidentified Bristol pottery
(Possibly)
Buff earthenware covered in dark blue tin-glaze and painted in white. Octagonal with an everted rim, sloping sides and flat centre, standing on a low footring, pierced by a hole. The central area is painted with a man seated in a landscape with sketchily outlined rocks and plants, and the sides with fan-like flower or leaf motifs.
History note: Mr Whittaker's shop at Christchurch, Hampshire, from whom bought for 15s.0d. on 1 February 1926 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 4.2 cm
Width: 21.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
17th Century, Late
James II
William III and Mary II
Circa
1685
CE
-
1695
CE
This dish could have been made in London or in Bristol or Brislington. The design, sometimes described as 'China-man-in Grasses' was derived from blue and white Chinese porcelain in the Ming Transitional style of the mid-late 16th century, or possibly Japanese copies of Chinese wares
Decoration composed of tin-glaze ( white)
blue
Tin-glaze
buff
Earthenware
Press-moulding
: Buff earthenware, press-moulded, tin-glazed dark blue, and painted in white
Tin-glazing
Accession number: C.1383-1928
Primary reference Number: 71899
Old object number: 4794
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 (2025) "Dish" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/71899 Accessed: 2025-05-20 10:02:34
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