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Pottery: Brislington Pottery
Tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue, green, yellow and brownish-red with tulips, lilies, spiral buds, and foliage in a vase within a scrolling border; blue dashes on edge
Buff earthenware, the front-tin-glazed and painted in blue, green, yellow and brownish-red; the reverse coated in pale slip and greenish-yellow lead-glaze with radiating streaks. Circular with a wide sloping rim, and curved well, standing on a footring. The front is decorated with a blue and white striped vase containing an arrangement of five tulips, two lilies, spiral buds and foliage, surrounded by two narrow blue concentric circles, a space and another blue circle. On the rim there is a Chinese style scrolling border broken by blue flowerheads and green spots, and on the edge, a yellow band and closely-set blue dashes.
History note: Unknown before Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 7.2 cm
Width: 40.9 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
17th Century, Late-18th Century, Early#
James II
William III and Mary II
Anne
Circa
1685
CE
-
1705
CE
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( blue, green, yellow and brownish-red)
Back
composed of
slip
( pale-coloured)
lead-glaze
Front
composed of
tin-glaze
buff Earthenware
Accession number: C.1486-1928
Primary reference Number: 72075
Old object number: 12
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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