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Pottery: Unidentified Bristol pottery (Probably)
Tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue
Buff earthenware, tin-glazed bluish-white on the visible surfaces, and painted in blue. Octagonal with two long sides, two short sides, protruding canted corners. The flat top has a central low cylindrical neck to take a cover, now missing. The top is decorated with four winged cupid's heads, and the two ends have standing Chinese figures. One side and its flanking corners is decorated wtih a Chinese pavilion, a rhubarb plant, and the inscription 'Rhubarb' above and to the left. The other side and its corners has a different Chinese pavilion and a tea shrub with 'The Tea/Shrub' inscribed under it.
History note: Sotheby's on 21 February 1905, lot 133; sold for £3.16s.0d. to Mr Hyam (of Hyam & Co. ?); bought from Hyam for £6.6s by Dr Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge. Lent to the Fitzwilliam Museum in November 1909
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 9 cm
Length: 9.4 cm
Width: 6.2 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, third quarter#
George III
Circa
1760
CE
-
Circa
1770
CE
The scenes on the sides were derived from illustrations in Johann Nieuhoff's 'An Embassy from the East India Company of the United Provinces to the Grand Tartar Cham, Emperor of China' (the tea plant), and the Appendix or Special remarks Taken at large out of Athanasius Kircher His Antiquities of China (the rhubarb plant), published in London by John Ogilby in 1669.
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colour
( blue from cobalt)
Visible Surfaces
composed of
tin-glaze
( bluish-white)
buff Earthenware
Accession number: C.1536-1928
Primary reference Number: 72180
Old object number: 2304
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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