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Production: Unidentified Liverpool pottery
Tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue and a little red with a sailing ship and the inscription 'Success to the Iohn & Mary/Iohn Spencer'
Buff earthenware with bluish tin-glaze painted mainly in blue with a little red and yellow. Circular with a broad rim, shallow sides, and flat centre with recessed base. In the middle there is a two masted. square-rigged trading brig flying the British Merchant flag, inscribed below 'Success to the John & Mary/John Spencer'. The rim has a narrow border of panels of trellis alternating with stylized floral motifs.
History note: S. Clark in partnership with Collins, another Cambridge dealer (Collins & Clark) who had bought the plate at some local sale'; for £8.15s. 0d. S. It was shown to Glaisher on behalf of Clark by another Cambridge dealer, Stanley Woolston on 15 November 1922; and was bought for £9.15s. on 21 November by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Diameter: 23 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, third quarter#
Circa
1756
CE
-
1765
CE
The 'John and Sally' was a merchant ship of 140 tons built at Great Yarmouth in 1756. She was registered at Lloyds in 1764 (the first year of the register). Her owner was John Spencer, and her captain P. Crombies. There are three more plates with identical decoration, one of them larger than the others. One is in Liverpool Museum (inv. no. 50.60.22), for the others see Documentation and Notes.
Decoration composed of high-temperature colour ( blue, yellow, and red)
bluish-white
Tin-glaze
buff
Earthenware
Moulding
: Buff earthenware, moulded, tin-glazed bluish-white and painted mainly in blue with a little yellow and red high-temperature colour
Tin-glazing
Accession number: C.1723-1928
Primary reference Number: 72531
Old object number: 4015
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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