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Production: Unidentified Staffordshire Potter
Earthenware dish, coated with cream slip and slip-trailed in olive-green and dark brown with a radiating design of stylized plant motifs, and the initials and date 'TP 1733'
Dark buff earthenware, thrown, the front coated with cream slip and slip-trailed in dark brown and olive-green before application of lead-glaze; reverse undecorated. Circular with a wide, slightly sloping rim with a crinkled edge, and a deep well with curved sides. In the middle is a rosette surrounded by projecting trefoil and single leaves, and having below, the initials and date in olive-green, 'T P 1733'. On the sides of the well there is a row of seven small rosettes alternating with seven motifs comprising four leaves with spots between them, and on the rim there is a border comprising trefoil leaves (or tulips) alternating with smaller trefoil leaves with scrolls below them, and spots in the spaces, all trailed in olive-green with dark brown outlines.
History note: A dealer, who obtained it near Birmingham; sold to Mr George Stoner, London, from whom purchased for £30 on 7 February 1908 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Diameter: 48.2 cm
Height: 7.7 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
Second quarter of 18th century
George II
Production date:
dated
AD 1733
Decoration
composed of
slip
( cream, dark brown, olive-green)
Front Surface
composed of
lead-glaze
Throwing (pottery technique) : Dark buff earthenware, thrown, the front coated with cream slip and slip-trailed in dark brown and olive-green before application of lead-glaze; reverse undecorated
Accession number: C.295-1928
Primary reference Number: 74237
Old object number: 2748
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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