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Production: Unidentified Westerwald pottery
Grey salt-glazed stoneware with incised decoration of stylized flowers and foliage reserved in a blue ground
Grey stoneware, thrown with applied handle, and incised decoration, painted in blue with smalt. The tankard is cylindrical with a contraction at the top to accommodate a metal mount. The large loop handle has two holes at the top for the attachment of a hinged cover. The front is decorated with a shield-shaped outline containing a large stylized flower, and flanked by arrangements of interlacing tendrils and daisy-like flowers reserved in a blue ground, Above and below the decoration there is a narrow wavy horizontal border and a blue band. The area below the handle is undecorated.
History note: Thomas Sutton, Eastbourne, from whom bought for £1.10s.0d. in March 1905, by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 20.2 cm
Width: 18.7 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century
Circa
1700
-
1799
The blue colouring was executed in smalt, which was produced by fusing cobalt with an alkali, usually potash, and sand, to produce a glassy mass which was ground up to a powder mixed with water
Decoration
composed of
smalt
Surface
composed of
salt-glaze
Base
Diameter 12.8 cm
Body
grey Stoneware
Accession number: C.2054-1928
Primary reference Number: 73058
Old object number: 2284
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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