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Dish with a standing bird on the cover
Production: The Porcelain Axe Factory
Tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue, green, yellow, brownish-orange, and manganese-purple; a pair with C.2729.2 & A-1928
History note: Lovett Collection; sold Puttick & Simpson, London, 6 March, 1903, lot 281; bought for £8.10.0 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 14.3 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-08) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
Circa 1750 - 1775
De Porceleyne Byl factory operated from 1657 to 1803.
Dish
Length 12.3 cm
Decoration
blue, green, yellow, brownish-orange, manganese-purple
High-temperature colours
buff
Earthenware
Tin-glaze
Moulding
: Buff earthenware, moulded in parts, tin-glazed bluish-white and painted in blue, green, yellow, brownish-orange, manganese-purple high temperature colours
Tin-glazing
Accession number: C.2729.1 & A-1928
Primary reference Number: 73980
Old object number: 1421
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 with a standing bird on the cover" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/73980 Accessed: 2024-11-22 00:42:13
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