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Dish: Leaves and Fruit
Pottery: Unidentified Bristol pottery (Probably)
Tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue, green, yellow, and red with leaves and fruit; on the edge a yellow band and blue dashes
Buff earthenware, tin-glazed on both sides, and painted in blue, green, yellow, and red; the shiny tin-glaze on the reverse is uneven and has brown areas. Circular with a sloping rim and curved sides, standing on a broad footring. The front is decorated with a central medallion framed by blue and yellow concentric circles, enclosing a leaf surrounded by blue and red berries. Four similar leaves and berries radiate from the medallion with formal blue and red plants between them. The edge is encircled by blue and yellow bands and blue dashes.
History note: Purchased before 1903 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Diameter: 29 cm
Height: 6.8 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, Early#
Anne
George I
Circa
1710
CE
-
1730
CE
Decoration composed of high-temperature colours ( blue, green, yellow, red)
buff
Earthenware
shiny white with brown areas on the back
Tin-glaze
Tin-glazing : Buff earthenware, tin-glazed on both sides and painted on the front in blue, green, yellow, and red high-temperature (oxide) colours; the glaze on the back is shiny with brown areas
Accession number: C.1610-1928
Primary reference Number: 72304
Old object number: 1917
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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