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Pottery:
Lambeth High Street Pottery
Proprietor of pottery:
Griffith, William
Tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue, a little red with a fox-hunting scene andbianco-sopra-bianco boder inside and an Oriental coastal landscape outside
Buff earthenware, tin-glazed bluish-white and painted in blue, bianco-sopra-bianco, and a little red and yellow. Circular with deep curved sides, standing on a footring. The inside is decorated wth a hunting scene with two riders, two hounds and a red fox within a circular rococo C-curve and shell border entwined with a ribbon inscribed ‘Prosperity to Fox Hunting 1758’. Around the sides is a wreath of lily-like flowers and foliage in bianco-sopra-bianco. The exterior has an Oriental coastal landscape with junks, rocks, trees, Chinese figures, a bridge, and houses within a fenced compound, all in blue. The rim is yellow.
History note: Mr Stoner, London, from whom bought for £31.10s.0d. on 23 July 1917 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Diameter: 30.7 cm
Height: 11.8 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, third quarter#
George II
Production date:
dated
AD 1758
Although bianco-sopra-bianco decoration was used extensively in Bristol, the high quality of the painting of this bowl suggests London as a more likely place for its manufacture.
Decoration composed of high-temperature colour ( blue, a little red and yellow)
bluish-white
Tin-glaze
buff
Earthenware
Throwing
: Buff earthenware, thrown, turned, tin-glazed bluish-white, and painted in blue, red, and yellow, and in bianco-sopra-bianco
Tin-glazing
Accession number: C.1601-1928
Primary reference Number: 72290
Old object number: 4165
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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