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Pottery: Brislington Pottery
Tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue with Chinese figures in a landscape, and with turquoise-green on the handles
Buff earthenware tin-glazed very pale turquoise-blue, and painted in blue and turquoise-green. The bulbous pot stands on three feet in the shape of birds. It has two handles made of three joined rolls of clay with applied pellets on the backs and volutes with twisting terminals at the junctions with the body. The spout is decorated with pellets and has twisting terminals at both ends. The domed cover has two handles like those on the body which are joined at the top to a large acorn-shaped knob with a small acorn-shaped finial (restored). On the back of all four handles there is a turquoise-green snake. The sides and cover are decorated with Chinese figures standing or sitting in Oriental landscapes.
History note: Mr Button, Lower Grosvenor Street, London from whom purchased for £10.10s.0d. on 18 November 1907 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 30 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
17th Century, Late#
Charles II
James II
William III and Mary II
William III (1750-1702)
Circa
1675
CE
-
1700
CE
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colour
( blue from cobalt)
Decoraton
Handles
Pot
buff
Earthenware
pale turquoise-blue
Tin-glaze
Accession number: C.1646 & A-1928
Primary reference Number: 72380
Old object number: 2739
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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