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Spoon tray: C.1538-1928

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Current Location: Gallery 27 (Glaisher)

Maker(s)

Pottery: Brislington Pottery (Possibly)
Pottery: Unidentified Bristol pottery (Possibly)
Pottery: unidentified London pottery (Perhaps)

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Description

Buff earthenware, press-moulded, tin-glazed and painted in blue. Oval with forty slanting flutes on the sides and a flat base. Decorated on the flat surface with a woman seated at a spinning wheel outside a cottage in a landscape. The sides have a repeating radiating pattern comprising four circles with a dot in the centre of each one above the over, flanked by wide stripes, and separated from the next repeat by a narrow stripe.

Notes

History note: Henry Thomas Wake (1831-1914), Fritchley, Derbyshire; his 'Monthly Catalogue of Books, Coins, Antiqs & c.', no. 316, 8th month (August), 1900, item 130; bought for 10s.0d. on 2 December 1900 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge

Legal notes

Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest

Measurements and weight

Height: 2.1 cm
Length: 15.2 cm
Width: 10 cm

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr

Dating

18th Century, Early
Queen Anne
Circa 1707 CE - 1725 CE

Note

The use of this little dish is undetermined. Its size suggests that it could have been used as a spoon tray or for sauce or sweetmeats, but it might have been used on a dressing table

People, subjects and objects depicted

Components of the work

Decoration composed of high-temperature colour ( blue from cobalt)
Visible Surfaces composed of tin-glaze

Materials used in production

buff Earthenware

Techniques used in production

Press-moulding : Buff earthenware, press-moulded, tin-glazed except for the base, and painted in blue high-temperature colour

References and bibliographic entries

Identification numbers

Accession number: C.1538-1928
Primary reference Number: 72183
Old object number: 2416

Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Friday 20 December 2024

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts

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