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Pottery:
unidentified London pottery
(Probably)
Pottery:
Unidentified Bristol pottery
(Possibly)
Pottery:
Brislington Pottery
(Possibly)
Tin-glazed earthenware painted and sponged in blue with birds, trees, and plants
Buff earthenware, tin-glazed and painted and sponged in blue. The pot has a bulbous body with a short sloping neck, an applied tubular sucking spout, and two S-shaped handles which are flat inside and rounded on the outide. The slightly domed cover has a narrow flange round the edge and a mushroom-shaped finial. The front is decorated on each side of the spout with a sponged tree, and a bird standing on a rock with small plants sprouting from it. The back is decorated with one bird standing on rocks with plants between two sponged trees. Below there is a broad blue horizontal band between pairs of narrow bands, and round the neck, a broad blue band with two narrow below and one above. The spout and handle are striped horizontally. The cover is decorated with one sponged tree and a bird standing amidst rocks sprouting small plants. There are two bands round the base of the finial and one further out, and two more on the flange round the outer edge. The finial has a central spot, and radiating vertical lines crossed by three horizontal bands.
History note: Mr Wake, Fritchley, Derbyshire; his catalogue, no. 338 of June 1902, item 112; bought for £1.10s. 0d. by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 16.5 cm
Width: 18.2 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, Early#
Queen Anne
Circa
1710
CE
-
1720
CE
This posset pot was probably made in London, but might have been made at either Bristol or Brislington
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colour
( blue from cobalt)
Body
Handles And Finial
Spout
buff
Earthenware
Tin-glaze
Inscription present: half of a rectangular label with dark turquoise blue border
Accession number: C.1514 & A-1928
Primary reference Number: 72126
Old object number: 1450
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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