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Pottery: Unidentified Liverpool pottery
Tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue with Chinese landscapes
Buff earthenware, slab built, and very heavy, tin-glazed on the visible surfaces, and painted in blue. Square with tall sides and flat top with a central replacement neck to take cover, now missing. The top and bottom edges are bevelled. The top is decorated with a fleur-de-lys in each corner and with four floral sprays. On the bevelled edge there is a border of white scrolls reserved in a blue ground which also runs down each angle of the sides. Two adjacent sides are decorated with a Chinese landscape and two with Chinese garden scenes.
History note: Mr Stewart Acton, Brighton from whom purchased for £2 on 7 July 1917 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 14.9 cm
Width: 9.4 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, third quarter#
George II
George III
Circa
1750
CE
-
Circa
1760
CE
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colour
( blue from cobalt)
Visible Surfaces
composed of
tin-glaze
buff Earthenware
Accession number: C.1541-1928
Primary reference Number: 72187
Old object number: 4006
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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