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Potter: uncertain
Earthenware, slip-decorated, and lead glazed
Red earthenware, thrown, coated inside and out with white slip, and slip-trailed in dark red, olive-green, and white slips under yellowish lead glaze; base unglazed. Cylindrical with two S-shaped handles. Decorated round the top with a slip-trailed inscription, 'THE BEST IS NOT TOO GOOD FOR YOV 1692'. Below this, on each side, is a pair of stylized tulips separated by vesica-motifs, the latter made up of studs of slip with star impressions of a cut stick. The lid is left red without a coating of white, and is decorated with quatrefoils in white ouline filled in with olive-green slip shwoing the impression of a textile mesh.
History note: Given about 1840 to Mrs Wilson ffrance of Rawcliffe hall, near Garstang, Lancashire, by a farmer on the Rawcliffe estate; Margaret, youngest daughter of Thomas Robert Wilson of Rawcliffe Hall, Lancashire on June 6, 1859 married John Thomas Massy-Westroff of Attyflin, Co. Limerick; their eldest child, Mary Georgina, married on May 17, 1905 Arthur White; Mrs Westroff-White widowed and still of Attyflin, concerned for its safety because of the political situation, sold the pot for £100 in April 1922 through Rupert Gelston to Dr Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge. Gelston despatched it to his and Glaisher's mutual friends, Col. and Mrs. W.D. Dickson of Bournemouth, where it arrived on 26 April, and was unpacked by the Dicksons and Glaisher.
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 22.8 cm
Width: 29 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
17th Century, Late
William III and Mary II
Production date:
AD 1692
The cover is almost certainly a 'marriage'
Visible Surface
composed of
lead-glaze
Body
Decoration
Visible Surfaces
Accession number: C.286 & A-1928
Primary reference Number: 74141
Old object number: 4780
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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