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Part of a knife handle
Production: Bow Porcelain Manufactory
Moulded soft-paste porcelain, unglazed. Of pistol shape, lacking the lower end. Both sides have scrolls around the rounded top end and a garland of flowers close to the broken end
History note: Found in an excavation in London by G.F. Lawrence who gave it to Bernard Rackham (1876-1964)
Bequeathed by Bernard Rackham
Length: 6.7 cm
Width: 2.1 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1964-03-12) by Rackham, Bernard
18th Century, Mid
George II
Production date:
circa
AD 1755
presumed to contain bone ash Soft-paste porcelain
Moulding : Moulded soft-paste porcelain
Accession number: C.4.65-1964
Primary reference Number: 74901
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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