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Tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue
Earthenware, thrown, tin-glazed greenish-white, and painted in blue. On one side there is a shield-of-arms (on a chevron between three fleurs-de-lys, three lions heads), supported by lions, with a viscount's coronet above. Below there is a vacant cartouche. Two horizontal bands run round the base and below the rim.
History note: Swift, a travelling dealer, from whom bought for £3 by Mr. Miller, dealer of Lansdown Terrace (or Place), Bournemouth, who sold it on August 29, 1925 for £4 to Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge. .
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 15.9 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
Decoration composed of high-temperature colour ( blue from cobalt)
greenish
Tin-glaze
Earthenware
Accession number: C.1518-1928
Primary reference Number: 72131
Old object number: 4589
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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