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Dish: Tulips and other Flowers
Pottery:
Still Stairs Pottery
(Possibly)
Pottery:
Norfolk House
(Possibly)
Tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue, green and manganese-purple with a tulip and stylized foliage; reverse lead-glazed
Buff earthenware, the front tin-glazed, and painted in blue, pale bluish-green, and pale manganese-purple; the reverse, lead-glazed yellow with radiating streaks. Circular with shallow curved sides and slightly everted rim, standing on a footring pierced by a suspension hole. The front is decorated with a central tulip with on each side of it, four leaves of alternate colours on stems springing from a green mound. Round the rim there are two blue bands.
History note: Not known, but probably bought at Cambridge before 1908 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Diameter: 32.7 cm
Diameter: 12 7/8 in
Height: 6.8 cm
Height: 2 5/8 in
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
17th Century, Late
Charles II
Circa
1665
CE
-
1685
CE
Probably made at either Still Stairs pottery in Southwark or at Norfolk House, Lambeth
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( blue, pale bluish-green, and manganese-purple)
Back
composed of
lead-glaze
( yellow)
Front
composed of
tin-glaze
buff Earthenware
Accession number: C.1491-1928
Primary reference Number: 72080
Old object number: 1912
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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