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Pottery:
Vauxhall Pottery
Proprietor of pottery:
Chilwell, William I
Buff earthenware, tin-glazed white, and painted in blue, green, and red. Circular with deep sloping sixes standing on a footring. The centre is decorated with a floral spray and the sides with twelve geometrical motifs. The exterior is decorated with panels of formal flowers, and pendants with flowers and leaves reserved in a blue ground. Round the base there is a border of sgraffito scrolls in a blue ground.
History note: Unknown before Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Diameter: 29.5 cm
Height: 15.9 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
1720s
George I
George II
Circa
1720
CE
-
Circa
1730
CE
The sgraffito scrolls match a fragment from the Vauxhall Pottery site
Decoration composed of high-temperature colour ( blue, green, and red)
buff
Earthenware
with many white dots
Tin-glaze
Throwing
: Buff earthenware, thrown, tin-glazed, and painted in blue, green, and red; the glaze has many white dots
Tin-glazing
Accession number: C.1666-1928
Primary reference Number: 72415
Old object number: R.1780
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Punch bowl" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/72415 Accessed: 2024-12-22 12:30:11
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