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Pottery: Unidentified Liverpool pottery
Tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue
Buff earthenware, probably thrown, and crimped round the edge, covered with slightly bluish tin-glaze and painted in blue. Circular with a 'pie crust' border, and deep curved sides, standing on a footring. Painted in the middle with a large lotus and bamboo, and round the upper part of the sides with a border of trellis diaper broken by four circular panels each containing a stylized plant motif reserved in a blue ground.
History note: Sotheby’s, London, 6 February, 1908, part of lot 77; sold for 10s. 0d. to Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Diameter: 21.5 cm
Height: 4.6 cm
Height: 1 13/16 in
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 doubtfully to Dublin
Decoration
composed of
cobalt
Who.e
Diameter 8½ in
Edge
Throwing
: Buff earthenware, moulded, pierced, and covered with slightly bluish tin-glaze, painted in blue; three peg marks on the back below the rim
Tin-glazing
Accession number: C.1751-1928
Primary reference Number: 72555
Old object number: 2759
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Bowl" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/72555 Accessed: 2024-11-19 20:30:23
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|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2024-11-19 20:30:23|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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