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Dish: Leaves and Fruit
Probably
Unidentified Bristol pottery
(Pottery)
Tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue, green, yellow, and red with leaves and stylized fruits, and with a blue dash border
Buff earthenware, the front tin-glazed and painted in blue, green, yellow, and red; reverse has bluish tin-glaze. Circular with a sloping rim with slightly everted edge, and deep curved sides, standing on a footring. The front is decorated with a central medallion edged by blue and yellow concentric circles, containing a large green split leave surrounded by berries. Around this are four similar radiating leaves with stylized blue plants with red flowers between them. The edge is encircled by a blue and a yellow band and shallow blue dashes.
History note: Purchased before 1900 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher FRS, Trinity College Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Diameter: 29 cm
Height: 6.7 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed
(1928-12-07)
by
Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
Circa 1710 CE - 1730 1730 CE
Decoration: composed of high-temperature colours ( blue, green, yellow and red)
bluish on the reverse Tin-glaze buff Earthenware
Tin-glazing : Buff earthenware, tin-glazed on both sides, and painted on the front in blue, green, yellow, and red high-temperature (oxide) colours; reverse covered with bluish tin-glaze including the footring
Accession number: C.1609-1928
Primary reference Number: 72302
Old object number: 17
Stable URI
Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2020) "Dish"
Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/72302 Accessed: 2021-11-30 17:31:49
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Accession Number: C.5-1955
Accession Number: C.1610-1928
Accession Number: C.1611-1928
Accession Number: 1524
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