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tin-glazed earthenware decorated with reserves painted in blue in a powdered manganese-purple ground
Production:
Lambeth High Street Pottery
(Probably)
Proprietor of pottery:
Griffith, William
Buff earthenware, tin-glazed greyish-white, and decorated with powdered manganese-purple, and painting in blue. Circular with curved sides, standing on a low foot with two holes pierced through it after glazing. The front has a manganese-purple ground with a central octagonal reserve surrounded by eight alternately hexagonal and fan-shaped reserves. The central reserve is decorated with bamboo and flowering plants, and the reserves on the sides with a winged insect in the hexagons and a flower in the others.
History note: Mrs Kingsland, Croydon from whom bought in January 1894 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge.
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Diameter: 22.1 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, Mid
Circa
1740
CE
-
1745
CE
Decoration composed of high-temperature colours ( blue and manganese-puurple)
greyish
Tin-glaze
Earthenware
Moulding
: Buff earthenware, moulded, tin-glazed greyish-white, powdered in manganese-purple, and painted in blue
Tin-glazing
Accession number: C.1593-1928
Primary reference Number: 72276
Old object number: 473
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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