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Production: Unidentified Liverpool pottery
Tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue with flowers and foliage
Buff earthenware, tin-glazed bluish-white and painted in blue. Cylindrical with slightly sloping sides,and a partly covered top above the long, straight spout, and a loop handle with a upward tilting lower terminal.The sides are each decorated with stylized flowers and foliage.
History note: W.T. Lawrence Collection; bought by the late Mr Phillips of Hitchin in October 1907; bought from the present Mr Phillips pm 22 February 1913 for 15s.0d. by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge.
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Diameter: 7.9 cm
Height: 8.3 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, third quarter#
George III
Circa
1760
CE
-
Circa
1775
CE
For use by a child or invalid.
The feeding cup is attributed to Liverpool on the grounds of its floral decoration which resembles that on Liverpool ship bowls and other bowls with dates between 1761 and 1772
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colour
( blue from cobalt)
Body
bluish-white
Tin-glaze
buff
Earthenware
Accession number: C.1548-1928
Primary reference Number: 72198
Old object number: 3630
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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