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Pottery:
Temple Back Pottery
Proprietor of pottery:
Cantle, Thomas
Buff earthenware, covered with very shiny tin-glaze, and painted in blue. Circular with a sloping slightly upturned rim, curved sides and flat centre, standing on a footring. The front is decorated wth buildings in a landscape with a fence in the foreground and three birds flying overhead. The largest building has a cupola and is apparently demolished below it. The back is painted with repeating ‘11’ and ‘4’ motifs
History note: Boguht in London, 1893
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Diameter: 36.1 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, third quarter#
George II
Circa
1750
CE
-
Circa
1755
CE
A similar dish is in Bristol Museum.
Decoration composed of high-temperature colour ( blue from cobalt)
buff
Earthenware
Tin-glaze
Moulding
: Buff earthenware, moulded, tin-glazed, possibly with an application of kwaart as very shiny, and painted in blue
Tin-glazing
Accession number: C.2535-1928
Primary reference Number: 73677
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Dish" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/73677 Accessed: 2024-04-19 19:23:56
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