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Cat
Production: Unidentified Southwark Pottery
Tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue, green, and manganese-purple
Buff earthenware, moulded, tin-glazed bluish-white, and painted in blue, green, and manganese-purple. The hollow recumbent cat has the broken base of a candlestick on its back. The ground around it is painted green. The cat's fur is painted with small striations in manganese-purple forming stripes which follow the contours of its body, and are painted over in thin pale blue. The base of the candlestick has a row of blue zig-zags below a horizontal line.
History note: J.E. Hodgkin collection; Sotheby's, 2 December 1903, lot 64; sold to Tregaskis for 10s; who sold to S.G. Fenton from whom bought for £1.5s. on 15 December 1903 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Length: 14 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
17th Century, third quarter#
Charles II
Circa
1660
CE
-
1675
CE
Decoration composed of high-temperature colours ( blue, green, and manganese-purple)
bluish-white
Tin-glaze
buff
Earthenware
Moulding
: Buff earthenware, moulded, with applied base of candlestick, tin-glazed bluish-white, and painted in blue, pale blue, green, and manganese-purple high-temperature (metallic oxide) colours; the closed underside has a central circular ventilation hole
Tin-glazing
Accession number: C.1455-1928
Primary reference Number: 72028
Old object number: 2417
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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