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Production: Unidentified Lambeth Pottery (Probably)
Tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue with a standing figure of Mezzetin in a landscape
Buff earthenware, tin-glazed greyish-white and painted and sponged in blue. Circular with a sloping, slightly concave rim, shallow well, and recessed base. The front is decorated with a standing figure, probably Mezzetin from the Italian Comedy, playing a lute, in a landscape with sponged trees and shrubs on either side, and five birds flying overhead. Round the edge there is a narrow blue line.
History note: Sotheby's, 13 June 1906, part of lot 285; bought for £2.2s. by S.G. Fenton on behalf of Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Request
Diameter: 34 cm
Height: 4.2 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, second quarter#
George I
George II
Circa
1725
CE
-
1735
CE
Decoration composed of high-temperature colour ( blue from cobalt)
buff
Earthenware
greyish-white
Tin-glaze
Moulding
: Buff earthenware, moulded, tin-glazed greyish-white, and painted and sponged in blue high-temperature colour; the glaze on the reverse appears grey,with many pinholes, and has one peg mark near the rim
Tin-glazing
Accession number: C.1527-1928
Primary reference Number: 72167
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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