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Production:
Temple Back Pottery
(Probably)
Proprietor:
Cantle, Thomas
Tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue with an Oriental landscape
Buff earthenware, tin-glazed bluish-white, and painted in blue and yellow. Circular with narrow sloping rim, shallow well and recessed base. The front is painted with an Oriental landscape with promontories on either side, and a small island in the foreground. Two Chinese figures are standing on the promontory on the left, and there is a temple and trees on the other. Above on the left there are two banks of clouds, and in the middle two groups of flying birds. A yellow band encircles the rim. The back is inscribed and dated, 'Mary Harvey/1750'
History note: Mr George Stoner, who gave it on 26 June 1912 to Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Diameter: 20.3 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, Mid
George II
Production date:
dated
AD 1750
A similar plate with the same inscription is in the Victoria and Albert Museum (C.17-1928).
Decoration composed of high-temperature colour ( blue from cobalt)
bluish-greyish-white
Tin-glaze
Earthenware
Moulding
: Buff earthenware, moulded, tin-glazed bluish-greyish-white, and painted in blue high-temperature colour
Tin-glazing
Accession number: C.1573-1928
Primary reference Number: 72248
Old object number: 4972
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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