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Dish: C.1691-1928

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Current Location: In storage

Maker(s)

Pottery: Brislington Pottery (Possibly)
Pottery: Unidentified Bristol pottery (Possibly)
Pottery: unidentified London pottery (Possibly)

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Description

Tin-glazed earthenware painted in polychrome with a bird amongs flowers and foliage and radiating borders

Buff earthenware, tin-glazed bluish-white, and painted in blue, green, and red. Circular with curved sides and fifty-eight grooves in the rim, creating a fluted appearance, standing on a footring pierced by two suspension holes. Decorated in the middle with a circular medallion framed by two concentric blue circles enclosing a bird perching among flowers and foliage. This is surrounded by a radiating border of stylized leaves and plants within a shaped outline with an area of blue ground between it and the rim. The rim has a border of almond-shaped motifs outlined in blue and red, with small green and red plants in the spaces and a blue line on the edge. On the reverse there is a small red B-like mark within the footring.

Legal notes

Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest

Measurements and weight

Diameter: 40 cm

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr

Dating

18th Century, Early
Anne
Production date: circa AD 1710

Note

This dish may have been made in London or at Brislington or Bristol

Components of the work

Decoration composed of paint tin-glaze
Grooves

Materials used in production

Earthenware

Techniques used in production

Moulded
Tin-glazing

References and bibliographic entries

Identification numbers

Accession number: C.1691-1928
Primary reference Number: 72459
Old object number: 1451

Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Tuesday 30 April 2024

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts

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