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Pottery: Unidentified Liverpool pottery
Tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue
Buff earthenware, moulded, covered with pale bluish-grey tin-glaze and painted in blue. Octagonal with a sloping rim, and circular well with curved sides; the base is recessed slightly. The well is decorated with a branch bearing several different flowers. The rim has four panels of trellis diaper alternating with stylized flowers reserved in a blue ground. On the back of the rim there are three meandering twigs or ribbons.
History note: Mr Harrison's shop, King Street, off Cheapside, London, EC, from whom boughtt for £1 on 14 May 1917 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 2.3 cm
Width: 21.6 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, third quarter#
George II
George III
Circa
1750
CE
-
1775
CE
Formerly attributed to Dublin
Decoration composed of high-temperature colour ( blue from cobalt oxide)
bluish-grey
Tin-glaze
Earthenware
Moulding
: Buff earthenware, moulded, tin-glazed bluish-grey and painted in blue high-temperature colour
Tin-glazing
Accession number: C.1747-1928
Primary reference Number: 72549
Old object number: 3881
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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