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Production: Brislington Pottery (Probably)
Tin-glazed earthenware wall plaque. Slightly convex on the upper side, concave on the underside. Pierced with two holes above the lower ledge before firing. Greenish glaze, pooling and wrinkled on the back. Decorated with a border of flowers and tendrils, enclosing an inscription in blue:
'WEALTHEAN/ FRANCIS OF THE / PARRISH OF PONTAPOOL/ DEPARTED THIS LIFE/ THE 31TH DAY OF OCTOBER/ AN DOM 1692'.
History note: Mr J. Kyrle Fletcher who sold it to Mr Harold Davis. Sent by Davis on approval to Cambridge on 8 October 1928 and bought for £45 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge.
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher
Thickness: 2 cm
Width: 25.2 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
17th Century#
Production date:
AD 1692
Wealthean was a girl’s name popular in certain families from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century. Pontapool was an alternative spelling for Pontypool in Monmouthshire. This suggests that the panel was made in Brislington or Bristol, rather than London.
Decoration composed of high-temperature colour ( blue from cobalt)
buff
Earthenware
greenish, pooling and wrinkled on back
Tin-glaze
Cutting
: Buff earthenware cut into an octagonal shape, tin-glazed greenish-white, and painted in blue
Tin-glazing
Accession number: C.1508-1928
Primary reference Number: 72113
Old object number: 5097
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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