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Pottery: Unknown
Pale buff earthenware, tin-glazed and painted in bright blue and dark yellow; the glaze on the reverse is a dark pinkish-grey The fragment is approximately D-shaped and has part of the footring of the dish on the reverse. The front is decorated with part of a tulip on a stem with a heart-shaped leaf on it, and to the right of it, two blue leaves on stems and one yellow bud on a stem.
History note: Found in central London (outside the City boundary); G.F. Lawrence of Wandsworth by whom given to Bernard Rackham (1876-1964)
Bequeathed by Bernard Rackham
Length: 8.6 cm
Width: 6 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1964-03-12) by Rackham, Bernard
17th Century, Early#
1620
CE
-
1650
CE
Bernard Rackham, Keeper of Ceramics at the Victoria and Albert Museum, attributed this fragment of Rotterdam
Decoration composed of high-temperature colours ( blue and yellow)
pale buff
Earthenware
Tin-glaze
Tin-glazing : Pale buff earthenware, tin-glazed and painted in blue and yellow
Accession number: C.4.16-1964
Primary reference Number: 74808
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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