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Production: Unidentified Lambeth Pottery (Probably)
Tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue
Buff earthenware, thrown, tin-glazed and painted in blue, and a little brown. Circular with deep curved sides, standing on a high footring. The interior is decorated with a central floral spray surrounded by a circle of leaves on a continuous stem and further out, a single line. Round the rim there is a border of alternating blue rectangles and crossed white rectangles. The edge of the rim is brown. On one side of the exterior there is a long spray of stylized foliage and flowers terminating in a long tendril with a bud terminal, and on the other side, three detached leaves.
History note: Unknown before Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Diameter: 26.5 cm
Height: 9.2 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, Late
George III
Circa
1775
CE
-
1800
CE
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colour
( blue from cobalt)
Decoraton
bluish-white
Tin-glaze
buff
Earthenware
Throwing
: Buff earthenware, thrown, tin-glazed bluish-white and painted in blue
Tin-glazing
Accession number: C.1565-1928
Primary reference Number: 72232
Old object number: 157
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Punch bowl" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/72232 Accessed: 2024-11-08 19:02:11
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