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Pottery: Unidentified Liverpool pottery
Buff earthenware, press-moulded in relief, tin-glazed, and painted in green, yellow, red, brown and black. In the shape of a curving cornucopia with a flat back pierced by two suspension holes. The front is decorated with a bird standing on the narrow branch of a flowering tree. Above it there is a petalled yellow flower or shell.
History note: Lovett Collection; sold Puttick & Simpson, London, 6 March 1903, part of lot 224 with a pair; Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 20.2 cm
Height: 7 15/16 in
Width: 13.6 cm
Width: 5 3/8 in
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, third quarter#
George II
Circa
1755
CE
-
1760
CE
Decoration composed of high-temperature colours ( green, yellow, red, brown, and black)
buff
Earthenware
Tin-glaze
Press-moulding
: Buff earthenware, press-moulded in relief, tin-glazed, and painted in green, yellow, red, brown, and black high-temperature (oxide) colours; two suspension holes pierced in the back before firing
Tin-glazing
Accession number: C.1726-1928
Primary reference Number: 72534
Old object number: 1427
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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