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Factory: Unidentified Staffordshire Pottery
Creamware decorated with underglaze oxides and with sprigged and gilded reliefs.
Lead-glazed creamware decorated with sponged-on underglaze oxide in brown and sprigged and gilded vines, leaves and bunches of grapes. The bowl is a rounded shape with a flaring lip, which may have been intended to support a now lost cover for the bowl.
History note: Provenance unknown before Mrs James Bedford, London
Given by Mrs James Bedford
Diameter: 11 cm
Height: 6 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (1911-02-10) by Bedford, James, Mrs
18th Century, Mid#
George II
George III
Circa
1755
CE
-
Circa
1765
CE
Decoration composed of manganese oxide gold
Throwing
: Lead-glazed thrown earthenware with sprigged decoration and covered underglaze, perhaps using a sponge, with manganese oxide
Sponging
Lead-glazing
Inscription present: round, stick-on white paper label
Accession number: C.18-1911
Primary reference Number: 72685
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Sugar bowl" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/72685 Accessed: 2024-11-05 12:43:52
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