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Production: unidentified London pottery (Probably)
Tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue with an oriental landscape, flowers, and foliage
Buff earthenware, thrown, with applied handle and separate cover, tin-glazed bluish-white, and painted in blue. The body is cylindrical with a projecting base which is concave underneath, and an S-shaped handle which is rounded on the exterior and has a heart-shaped terminal. The cover has a high dome. The sides are decorated with an oriental style landscape with trees,flowering plants and a fence, with above a stylized pendant leaf border, and below an interlacing line border. The over is decorated with a central floral spray, a wreath of leaves, and a narrow border of interlacing lines.
History note: Bought at Puttick & Simpson by Mr S.G. Fenton, Cranbourn Street, London, who sold it for £7 on 15 May 1916 to Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 16.1 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, third quarter#
George II
George III
Circa
1755
CE
-
1770
CE
The form of the tankard is comparable to pewter and silver tankards of c. 1740-60
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colour
( blue from cobalt)
Body
bluish-white
Tin-glazing
buff
Earthenware
Accession number: C.1545 & A-1928
Primary reference Number: 72195
Old object number: 4083
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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