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Production: Unidentified Liverpool pottery
Tin-glazed earthenware water-bottle, painted in high-temperature 'Fazackerley' colours with flowers, fruit and a Chinese figure.
Buff earthenware, thrown, tin-glazed and painted in blue, yellow, brownish-orange and olive green, outlined in manganese-black. Bulbous, with a long narrow neck and cup-shaped mouth. On the body, id a large spray of formal flowers and a figure of a man carrying a basket of fruit; a diaper and floral border encircles the neck.
History note: Acquired by the vendor, Mr Plumb, at Litlington, Cambridgeshire; purchased for £7.10s. 0d. on 4 August 1923 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 22.8 cm
Height: 9 in
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, Mid#
George III
Circa
1760
CE
-
1765
CE
The distinctive palette is known as 'Fazackerly'.
Water bottles, also known as ‘guglets’, were supplied in sets with basins for washing.
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( in blue, yellow, brownish-orange and olive green, outlined in manganese-black)
Body
Diameter 14 cm
bluish
Tin-glaze
buff
Earthenware
Throwing
: Tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue, yellow, brownish-orange and olive green, outlined in manganese-black high-temperature (metallic oxide) colours; footring wiped clean of glaze
Tin-glazing
Accession number: C.1724-1928
Primary reference Number: 72532
Old object number: 4327
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Water bottle" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/72532 Accessed: 2024-12-22 12:08:40
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