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Pottery: unidentified London pottery
Tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue, turqoise-green, and deep yellow with tulips and foliage; blue dash border; back lead-glazed
Buff earthenware, the front tin-glazed and painted in blue, turquoise-green, and deep yellow; the reverse coated with pale slip and yellow lead-glaze. Circular with deep curved sides and everted rim, standing on a footring. The front is decorated with three tulips, a carnation, two buds, and blue spiral seed heads with dense flat-leaves on stems springing from a mound. Round the edge there is a yellow band and blue dashes.
History note: E.M.Tuke; his widow; after her death, sold in the Tuke Sale, The Vineyard, Saffron Walden on 18 June, 1908, part of lot 363; Mr Hagger, dealer of Saffron Walden who sold it to Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequst
Diameter: 35.8 cm
Height: 8.3 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, Late
Charles II
James II
William III and Mary II
Circa
1680
CE
-
1700
CE
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( blue, green, dark yellow)
Back
composed of
slip
( pale)
lead-glaze
( yellow)
Front
composed of
tin-glaze
Buff
composed of
earthenware
Press-moulding : Buff earthenware, the front tin-glazed and painted in blue, green, dark yellow high-temperature (oxide) colours; the reverse slip-coated and covered with yellow lead-glaze, except for four bare areas which appear to be finger-marks
Inscription present: no longer present but described by Glaisher in MS Catalogue
Accession number: C.1495-1928
Primary reference Number: 72089
Old object number: 2125
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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