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Production: Unidentified Lambeth Pottery (Possibly)
Buff earthenware, tin-glazed and painted in blue, green, yellow, red, and manganese-purple. Circular with sloping rim, shallow sloping sides, and recessed base. Decorated with a yellow caterpillar on a large blue leaf flanked by two green leaves, and a flowering prunus branch.
History note: Unknown before Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Diameter: 21.8 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, Mid
George II
Production date:
circa
AD 1750
Decoration composed of high-temperature colour ( blue, green, yellow, red, and manganese-purple)
bluish
Tin-glaze
buff
Earthenware
Tin-glazing : Buff earthenware, moulded, tin-glazed bluish-white, and painted in blue, green, yellow, red, and manganaese-purple high-temperature (oxide) colours; two peg marks visible
Accession number: C.1475-1928
Primary reference Number: 72060
Old object number: 1532
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 (2024) "Plate" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/72060 Accessed: 2024-11-19 20:16:39
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