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Production: Unidentified Liverpool pottery
Tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue with floral sprays
Buff earthenware, thrown, pierced, tin-glazed bluish-white and painted in blue. Cylindrical with curved shoulders, a short neck with everted rim, and concave underside The sides are pierced by six arched openings. The sides are decorated between each opening with a bird standing on a flowering plant with insects flying above. Round the neck there is a border of alternating panels of cracked ice pattern and oriental scrolls.
History note: William Fuller Maitland, Stansted Hall, Stansted Essex; family left in 1921; sale held September 1922; Mr J.J. Wordingham, dealer, Hope House, Coram Rd, Norwich who sold it on 21 November 1922 for £1.10s.0d. to Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 12.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, Mid
George II
Circa
1745
CE
-
1755
CE
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colour
( blue from cobalt)
Holes
bluish-white
Tin-glaze
buff
Earthenware
Throwing
: Buff earthenware, thrown, pierced, tin-glazed bluish-white and painted in blue
Tin-glazing
Accession number: C.1540-1928
Primary reference Number: 72186
Old object number: 4014
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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