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Production: Unidentified Lambeth Pottery (Probably)
Tin-glazed earthenware with pierced sides, painted and sponged in dark blue
Buff earthenware with pierced sides, tin-glazed and painted and sponged in dark blue. Circular with deep sloping sides, pierced with heart and other shapes to produce a flowerhead design, and four small twisted clay handles rising from the rim; the underside is concave. The central medallion is decorated with a man and woman walking in a landscape. The sides inside and out are sponged in blue, and on the rim there is a border of petals or leaves. The handles are blue overall.
History note: Purchased as a sale at Mr Izant's house, Brixton by Croydon dealer, Mrs Kingsland, from whom purchased in 1894 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge.
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 19.3 cm
Width: 20.7 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, Early#
Queen Anne
George I
Circa
1710
CE
-
1720
CE
Probably made at Lambeth.
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colour
( blue from cobalt)
Handles
Sides
buff
Earthenware
wiped off foot-rim
Tin-glazing
Accession number: C.1515-1928
Primary reference Number: 72128
Old object number: 99
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Basket" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/72128 Accessed: 2024-11-25 00:02:45
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|title=Basket
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2024-11-25 00:02:45|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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