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Production: Unidentified Pottery
Buff earthenware tin-glazed and painted in blue and manganese-purple. Circular with a sloping rim and shallow well. In in the middle Bacchus, crowned with grapes and holding a bunch is seated astride a barrel with a wine jug behind. On the rim there is a border of fruiting vine.
History note: Bought in Rye about 1900 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher FRS. Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Diameter: 33 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
Decoration composed of high-temperature colour ( blue and manganese-purple)
buff
Earthenware
Tin-glaze
Accession number: C.1588-1928
Primary reference Number: 72268
Old object number: 1538
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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