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Potter: Unidentified Staffordshire Potter
Slipware dish decorated in the middle with a cock within circular frame of triangles, and round the sides with alternating fleur-de-lys, tulips and another flower.
Buff earthenware, moulded over a hump mould, to produce the outlines of the design in relief, coated inside with cream slip, and slip-trailed in ochre and dark brown slips under yellowish lead-glaze. The reverse is undecorated. The lead-glaze has not entirely covered the left edges of the dish so that the slip and body are visible. The dish is circular with deep curved sides and a pie-crust edge, formed by impressing an oval tool or stick. In the middle, there is a circular frame of alternately ochre and dark brown triangles enclosing a cock strutting to the right. On the sides there is a fleur-de-lis at 3 and 9 o'clock, a tulip at 6 and 12 o'clock and four stylized star-shaped flowers in the spaces between them.
History note: J. Bateman, 42 Gloucester Green, Oxford from whom bought for £25 on 19 July 1912 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 7.4 cm
Width: 36.7 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, first half
Circa
1700
CE
-
1740
CE
Front
composed of
lead-glaze
Decoration
composed of
slip
buff Earthenware
Press-moulding : Buff earthenware, moulded over a hump mould, to produce the outlines of the design in relief, coated inside with cream slip, and slip-trailed in ochre and dark brown slips under yellowish lead-glaze. The reverse is undecorated. The lead-glaze has not entirely covered the left edges of the dish so that the slip and body are visible
Accession number: C.204-1928
Primary reference Number: 73039
Old object number: 3522
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2025) "Dish" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/73039 Accessed: 2025-04-29 22:09:20
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