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Pottery: Unidentified Bristol pottery (Probably)
Tin-glazed earthenware painted in polychrome with a Chinese figure in a garden
Buff earthenware, tin-glazed greyish-white, and painted in blue, green, yellow, and red. Circular with a wide slightly sloping rim, shallow curved sides, and flat centre with recessed base. Decorated in the middle with a Chinese figure holding a flower, standing in front of a fence with a bush on the left. The rim is decorated wth three stems of flowers and leaves. A blue line runs round the edge.
History note: Unknown owner at Chesterford, Essex; bought in Cambridge on 28 November 1894 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Diameter: 21.8 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 colour ( blue, green, yellow, and red)
buff
Earthenware
greyish-white
Tin-glaze
Moulding
: Buff earthenware, moulded, tin-glazed greyish-white, and painted in blue, green, yellow, and red high temperature (metallic oxide) colours
Tin-glazing
Accession number: C.1697-1928
Primary reference Number: 72468
Old object number: 475
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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