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Production: Unidentified Hilgert pottery (Possibly)
Buff stoneware with applied moulded relief decoration painted in manganese-purple and blue; pewter mounts, cover engraved with */IHS/1772, and oval ball thumbpiece
Buff stoneware, thrown, with applied handle, applied moulded relief decoration painted in blue and manganese-purple, and salt-glaze; pewter mounts, thumbpiece and cover. The cylindrical tankard has a loop handle with a curl of clay below its lower end. It has applied top and lower borders of repeating lozenge diamonds in high relief, painted blue. Above the upper border there is a blue horizontal band, and below the lower border another. On the main field there are three rectangular panels with rounded corners each bearing the same two tier design of a mask and wings flanked by two towers with spires, over a winged cherub's head flanked by boats. In the upper part of each panel are the initials W B on either side of the winged mask, on the left between the towers LUV, and on the right between the towers, D E N. Above and below are borders of U-shapes painted in manganese-purple. The rim and lower edge have a plain pewter mount. A pewter mount and hinge at the top of the handle are attached to a oval ball thumbpiece with a small knob on top, and a flat-topped cover with gadrooned sides and an eight-pointed star in the middle on which is engaved ' */ IHS / 1772'.
History note: Ludwig Heinemann, Taunusstrasse 40, Wiesbaden, from whom purchased for 60 marks on 10 October 1908 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 25.5 cm
Width: 17.4 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, Early#
Circa
1700
-
1725
Body
composed of
stoneware
( pale grey)
Decoration
composed of
cobalt oxide
manganese oxide
Surface
composed of
salt-glaze
Base
Diameter 13.5 cm
Relief Decoration
Inscription present: spaced out in the upper part of each panel
Inscription present: I is a script capital not a Roman capital I
Accession number: C.2038-1928
Primary reference Number: 73036
Old object number: 2861
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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