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Pail Custard with Pierced Cover
Production: Spode
Bone china painted in Imari style
Bone china, painted underglaze in blue and overglaze in red, green, and gold. The pail has deep slightly curved sides and a scalloped rim with two vertical handles pierced by heart-shapes. The low domed cover is pierced by twelve circular holes and has a flat button-shaped knob. The exterior of the pail is decorated with a continuous Oriental garden with fences and flower plants, and above it with a broad complex border of waves, scrolls, and plant motifs. The cover is decorated with a circle of flower heads and a narrower border. The top of the knob is gilded.
History note: Mrs J. Couch Adams, Cambridge; given by her on 1 July 1906 to Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College Cambridge
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 7.3 cm
Width: 7.6 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
Decoration
composed of
enamel
( red and green)
cobalt
gold
Cover
Moulding
: Bone china, moulded in two parts, the cover pierced, glazed, and painted underglaze in blue, overglaze in red and green enamel, and gilded
Glazing
Accession number: C.3100.2 & A-1928
Primary reference Number: 74378
Old object number: 2473
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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