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Potter: Taylor, John, potter (Probably)
Red earthenware, the body thrown, with two small applied handles and between them two applied vertical crinkled strips of clay. The inside and the upper part of the exterior are coated with white slip, The decoration is trailed in white, and red-brown slips under lead-glaze. The name 'IOHN :TAYLOR : 1690' is trailed on the white area, and on dark brown lower part there are two white S-scrolls with trefoil leaves at the top between each handle and crinkled strip.
History note: Mr Stoner; sold Sotheby’s on November 18, 1907, for £10.15s.0d by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 12.2 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
William III and Mary II
Production date:
dated
AD 1690
Probably made by John Taylor
Visible Surfaces
composed of
lead-glaze
Decoration
composed of
slip
Rim
Diameter 17 cm
Body
Handles
Accession number: C.247-1928
Primary reference Number: 73562
Old object number: 2738
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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