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Pottery: Unidentified Liverpool pottery
Tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue
Buff earthenware, tin-glazed bluish-white and painted in blue. Circular with deep curved sides, standing on a footring. The interior is decorated with a central inscription: ‘How in his Mid-Career, the Spaniel struck,/stiff, by the tainted Gale, with open Nose/out-stretch’d & finely sensible, draws full,/ Fearfull, & Cautious, on the latent Prey;/Caught in the Messhy Snare, in vain they beat/their useless wings, intangled more & more:/ nor on the Surges of the boundless air, /tho’ born Triumphant, are they safe, the Gun/Glanc’d Just, and Sudden, from, the Fowler’s Eye/O’ertakes their Sounding pinions; and again,/I’mediate brings them from the towering Wing,/Dead to the ground; or drives them else dispersed,/Wounded & wheeling various, down the wind’. This is surrounded bu a narrow border of stylized striped leaves, and above below the rim, is a wide grape vine border. The exterior is decorated wth a continuous landscape including a cottage, two men with guns, six pointers, and a covey of partridges.
History note: Mr Stoner, London from whom purchased for £10 on 13 May 1918 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 12.5 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
-
1765
CE
Attributed to Bristol by Rackham (1935), but the border is comparable to other bowls attributable to Liverpool.
The inscription is taken from James Thomson (1700-48), 'Autumn', a blank verse poem, published in the first complete edition of 'The Four Seasons' in 1730.
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colour
( blue from cobalt)
Rim
Diameter 30.7 cm
bluish-white
Tin-glaze
buff
Earthenware
Throwing
: Buff earthenware, thrown, tin-glazed, painted and sponged in blue
Tin-glazing
Accession number: C.1557-1928
Primary reference Number: 72218
Old object number: 4170
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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