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Production: Unidentified Bristol pottery (Probably)
Tin-glazed earthenwre painted in blue with floral sprays and lotus blooms
Buff earthenware, moulded, tin-glazed except for the base, and painted in blue. Octagonal with straight sides, and flat top with a central short cylindrical neck to take a cover, now missing. The top and four sides are decorated with floral sprays on a white ground. Above and below on the sides there is a horizontal line. The canted corners are decorated wth a lotus bloom on a long stem reserved in a ground of tiny circles.
History note: Bought at a shop in Oxford Street, near Mr Fenton's for 7s.0d. in 1904 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 11.9 cm
Length: 10 cm
Width: 7.6 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
Circa 1760 CE - 1770 CE
The decoration was derived from Chinese pocelain of the reign of Yonzheng (1723-35)
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colour
( blue from cobalt)
Visible Surfaces
composed of
tin-glaze
( bluish-white)
buff Earthenware
Moulded : Buff earthenware, moulded, tin-glazed bluish-white on the visible surfaces, and painted in blue, and on the neck, probably pale yellow with blue over it, appearing bluish-green
Accession number: C.1535-1928
Primary reference Number: 72179
Old object number: 2203
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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