Current Location: Gallery 27 (Glaisher)
Maker(s)
Pottery:
unidentified London pottery
Entities
Categories
Description
Tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue with a dark brownish-orange rim
Buff earthenware, thrown, tin-glazed and painted in blue and dark brownish-orange. Circular, with deep curved sides, standing on a high footring. In the middle there is a circular medallion with a scrolled border enclosing a drinking scene showing three men seated at a table on which is a punch bowl. The man in the centre holds up a goblet. The other two are smoking church-warden pipes, and the one on the right is stirring the punchbowl. Behind the table there is a window, flanked by two tricorne hats hanging on the wall. Below the rim there is a border of ships, a whale and an island on a narrow strip of sea. The exterior is decorated on one side with the Tower of London with the name EDWARD LESTER above. On the other side there is a squad of six men carrying muskets over their shoulders, perhaps militia, commanded by an officer, and a large trophy of arms comprising a canon, flags, pikes, and a drum. On either side there is a standing soldier wearing a tall mitre cap of a Fusilier or Grenadier demonstrating two drill positions associated with fixing bayonets. The rim is painted dark brownish-orange. The underside is dated '1734'.
Notes
History note: Cecil Davis, 8 St Mary Abbot's Terrace, Kensington Road, London, from whom purchased for £20 on 13 June 1922 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Legal notes
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Measurements and weight
Diameter: 25.7 cm
Height: 11.5 cm
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed
(1928-12-07)
by
Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
Dating
18th Century, second quarter
George II
Production date:
dated
AD 1734
Note
A comparable bowl bearing the name Samuel Campion, and the date 1734 is in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.
The subject of the decoration suggests strongly that this bowl was made in London. On accession the bowl had brass mount on the foot which concealed the date. See Documentation, Archer, 2013 for a discussion of the decoration and the relationship of the bowl to another dated 1734 in the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford.
People, subjects and objects depicted
Components of the work
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colour
( blue from cobalt)
Materials used in production
bluish-white and shiny
Tin-glaze
buff
Earthenware
Techniques used in production
Throwing
: Buff earthenware, thrown, tin-glazed and painted in blue, and on the rim in dark brownish-orange
Tin-glazing
Inscription or legends present
- Text: EDWARD LESTER
- Location: On exterior
- Method of creation: Painted in blue
- Type: Inscription
- Text: 1734
- Location: On base
- Method of creation: Painted in blue
- Type: Date
References and bibliographic entries
Identification numbers
Accession number: C.1517-1928
Primary reference Number: 72130
Old object number: 3788
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Saturday 6 August 2011
Updated: Monday 25 March 2024
Last processed: Tuesday 15 July 2025
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
