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Production: Unidentified Lambeth Pottery (Probably)
Tin-glazed earthenware painted and sponged in manganese-purple with figures in a landscape
Buff earthenware tin-glazed pale grey and painted and sponged in manganese-purple. Circular with a wide rim, shallow curved sides and flat centre, standing on a low footring. The front is decorated with a man and a boy standing in a landscape with a large sponged tree on the left side of the plate, and hazy trees and bushes in the background. Both hold out their left hand towards the right.
History note: Unknown before Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Diameter: 30.2 cm
Height: 4.4 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, Mid
George II
Circa
1745
CE
-
Circa
1755
CE
Probably made at Lambeth
Decoration composed of high-temperature colour ( manganese-purple)
buff
Earthenware
pale grey
Tin-glaze
Moulding
: Buff earthenware, moulded, tin-glazed pale grey, and painted and sponged in manganese-purple; the footring is pierced by a hole incorrectly placed for suspension the right way up of the design; three peg marks on the back of the rim
Tin-glazing
Accession number: C.1602-1928
Primary reference Number: 72296
Old object number: 1911
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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