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Production: Unidentified Westerald pottery
Greyish-buff stoneware, decorated overall with cut verti¬cal diaper pattern (Kerbschnitt), and salt-glazed. In the form of a barrel with a screw top with a loop handle through which is a loose ring. On the sides are four groups of three horizontal bands with Kerbschnitt between them. The shoulder is decorated with Kerbshnitt radiating from the neck. which has a screw for the top. The cover has a cylindrical lower part with vertical cutting, and an almost flat circular top with cutting radiating from the loop handle. The ring is decorated on both sides with indented circles surrounded by tiny holes, and on its outer edge has undecorated indented circles.
History note: Unknown before Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
12
Height: 20.7 cm
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Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century
Circa
1700
CE
-
1799
CE
Possibly made at Hohr in the Westerwald
Surface
composed of
salt-glaze
Ring
Diameter 5.7 cm
Base
Diameter 8.2 cm
Body
Decoration
greyish-buff Stoneware
Accession number: C.2068 & A-1928
Primary reference Number: 73069
Old object number: 985
Dup. object number: C.2068 -1928
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Screw-top bottle" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/73069 Accessed: 2024-12-18 13:08:10
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