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Pottery:
Lambeth High Street Pottery
Proprietor:
Griffith, Abigail
Tin-glazed earthenware painted in polychrome with a Chinese figure in a landscape
Buff earthenware tin-glazed greenish-white, and painted in blue, green, yellow and red. Circular with sloping rim, shallow sides, and flat centre with recessed base. Decorated in the centre with a Chinese figure seated in an Oriental landscape, and on the rim with four floral sprays alternating with four sprigs. The blue leaves have veins scratched through the colour (sgraffito technique).
History note: Bought by the vendor in a village near Cambridge; Mr Freeman's sale on 27 January 1904, where bought by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Diameter: 23.2 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, third quarter#
George III
Circa
1765
CE
-
1775
CE
Made at the Lambeh High Street pottery before or during Abigale Griffith's partnership with Thomas Morgan
Decoration composed of high-temperature colour ( blue, green, yellow, and red)
buff
Earthenware
greenish
Tin-glaze
Press-moulding
: Buff earthenware, press-moulded, tin-glazed greenish-white, and painted in blue, green, yellow, and red
Tin-glazing
Accession number: C.1482A-1928
Primary reference Number: 72071
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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