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Pottery:
Redcliff Back Pottery
(Probably)
Proprietor of pottery:
Frank, Richard
Tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue, green, yellow, manganese-purple, and red with Chinese figures and plants
Buff earthenware, tin-glazed on the visible surfaces, and painted in blue, green, yellow, manganese-purple, and a little red. Octagonal with protruding canted corners and flat top with a central cylindrical neck to take a cover, now missing. The top is decorated with Chinese style flowers.Two sides have a standing Chinese figure with plants and fences; and the short sides and canted corners have floral sprays and plants.
History note: Messrs Sargent and Fisher, 5B Palmer Street, Westminster, London, from whom bought for £2.10s. 0d. on 27 September 1909 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 9.3 cm
Length: 7.7 cm
Width: 5.9 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, third quarter#
George III
Circa
1760
CE
-
Circa
1770
CE
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( blue, green, yellow, manganese-purple and a little red)
Visible Surfaces
composed of
tin-glaze
buff Earthenware
Accession number: C.1679-1928
Primary reference Number: 72436
Old object number: 3061
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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