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Production:
Unidentified Bristol pottery
(Possibly)
Pottery:
Brislington Pottery
Tin-glazed earthenware painted in polychrome with a fox, inscription, and borders
Buff earthenware, tin-glazed and painted in blue, green, yellow, and reddish-brown. The jug is cylindrical with a projecting lip and applied handle which is concave inside and outside, and has a long V-shaped terminal. The outside is decorated wth a fox bounding to the left flanked by the words of an inscription:‘Good Ale Will' and
'Catch him’. Round the lower part there is a wide green band flanked by two narrow blue bands and another blue band. Below the rim there is a broad yellow band between two blue, with below it, groups of red vertical strokes between motifs made up of a blue W, a red V with curls at the bottom, and three pendant green leaves.
History note: The sale of a person named Fox at Banbury; bought by Mr Bateman, Gloucester Green, Oxford; bought for £8 on 10 February 1917 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 16.6 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, Early#
Queen Anne
George I
Circa
1710
CE
-
1725
CE
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( blue, green, yellow, and red)
Body
buff
Earthenware
Tin-glaze
Accession number: C.1698-1928
Primary reference Number: 72469
Old object number: 4854
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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