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Production: unidentified London pottery
Tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue with a continuous landscape with a horseman and a dog on each side, the top is pierced by three large and nineteen small holes
Buff earthenware, probably slab-built, pierced, tin-glazed bluish-white and painted in blue. The flower brick is rectangular with the top and base recessed and chamfered, and the former pierced by three large and nineteen smaller holes. One long side is decorated with a dog and a man on horseback travelling to the left in a landscape with a tree behind the rider and buildings in the distance on the left. The other long side has a man on horseback galloping to the left in a landscape with a tree behind the rider, and buildings in the distance on the left, which similarly continues on the short end. The landscapes continue on the two ends. The large holes in the top are encircled by a blue band, and the small holes by petal-like strokes.
History note: Gog Magog House, Cambridgeshire; Duke of Leeds sale, Christie's, 4 May 1894, Porcelain, lot 29, sold for 15s.0d.; Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Depth: 8.2 cm
Height: 9.5 cm
Length: 16.4 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, Mid
George II
George III
Circa
1745
CE
-
1765
CE
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colour
( blue from cobalt)
Top
bluish-white
Tin-glaze
buff
Earthenware
Slab-building
: Buff earthenware, slab-built, pierced, tin-glazed, and painted n blue
Tin-glazing
Accession number: C.1543-1928
Primary reference Number: 72193
Old object number: 123
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Flower brick" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/72193 Accessed: 2024-11-04 18:11:59
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