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Pottery: Unidentified Liverpool pottery
Tin-glazed earthenware, painted in blue with flowers and a wager
Buff eathenware, the body thrown and its neck pierced, and having an applied tubular rim with three spouts, linked to an applied tubular handle with a connecting hole into the lower part of the body. The piercing on the neck forms flower heads with heart-shaped and oval petals outlined in blue. The front of the lower part is decorated with a shaped panel inscribed with a wager, 'Here Gentelmen come try youre skill,/I'll hold A wager if you will,/That you don't drink this lquor all,/Without you spill or lett some fall./Thos Buckley. 1759'. This is flanked by floral sprays. The back of the handle and the rim have scroll decoration.
History note: William Turner, Purley Chase, Atherstone, Warwickshire; the collection was sold in its entirety to Mr Stoner (probably George), London, who kept the best pieces for his shops, and disposed of the rest at Puttick & Simpson on 5 and 6 April 1911. He sold this piece in 1911 for £11 to Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge.
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 18 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, third quarter#
George III
Production date:
dated
AD 1769
Attributed to Bristol by Rackham and reattributed to Liverpool by F.H. Garner on 19 August 1964
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colour
( blue from cobalt)
Body
Neck
bluish-white
Tin-glaze
Earthenware
Accession number: C.1556-1928
Primary reference Number: 72217
Old object number: 3381
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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