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Pottery: Lambeth High Street Pottery
Tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue with a shepherd and shepherdess in a landscape
Buff earthenware, tin-glazed bluish-white, and painted in blue. Circular wth a sloping rim, sloping sides, and flat centre with recessed base. The front is decorated overall with a Shepherdess and a shepherd holding a houlette in a landscape with a ruined arch and a tree on the left.
History note: One of a set of six in Plashwood's Sale; bought by Mr Johnson, 4 Angel Hill, Bury St Edmunds who sold it about 1894 to Dr J.W.L. Glaisher FRS. Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Diameter: 22.8 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
1770s
George III
Circa
1770
CE
-
1775
CE
The shepherd a d shepherdess are after the title page of F. de Cuvilliés, Morceaux de Caprice, à Divers Usages, c. 1770. The tower on the left does not appear in this print. The shepherd is holding a houlette, a staff with a cup-shaped end which was used for throwing stones at dogs or wolves which threatened the flock.
Decoration composed of high-temperature colour ( blue from cobalt)
bluish-white
Tin-glaze
buff
Earthenware
Moulding
: Buff earthenware, moulded, tin-glazed bluish-white, and painted in blue; three point marks on the back
Tin-glazing
Accession number: C.1581A-1928
Primary reference Number: 72256
Old object number: 364
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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