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Night light holder: C.1540-1928

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Current Location: In storage

Maker(s)

Production: Unidentified Liverpool pottery

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Description

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.

Notes

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

Legal notes

Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest

Measurements and weight

Height: 12.5 cm

Acquisition and important dates

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

Dating

18th Century, Mid
George II
Circa 1745 CE - 1755 CE

School or Style

Rococo

Components of the work

Decoration composed of high-temperature colour ( blue from cobalt)
Holes

Materials used in production

bluish-white Tin-glaze
buff Earthenware

Techniques used in production

Throwing : Buff earthenware, thrown, pierced, tin-glazed bluish-white and painted in blue
Tin-glazing

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Identification numbers

Accession number: C.1540-1928
Primary reference Number: 72186
Old object number: 4014

Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Tuesday 30 April 2024

Associated departments & institutions

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

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