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Pottery: unidentified London pottery
Buff earthenware, tin-glazed except for the base. Cylindrical with convex sides expanding slightly towards the rim; splayed foot.
History note: James Smith, Whitechapel, London; the number on the label on the pot may refer to the lot number in Sotheby, Wilkinson and Hodge, sale of 1901. Record of donation has not been found (1981). It is possible that this pot was acquired by Dr Glaisher at the James Smith Sale among a box of fragments including drug pots, and was bequeathed with the rest of his collection in 1928, rather than having been acquired by the Museum in 1901. In his catalogue entry for C.1349-1928 Glaisher wrote 'I have several other delft cups or unguent pots which have been buried . . As for these unguent pots a number of years ago at the sale after his death of Mr Smith who had made several collections of pottery dug up in London I bought a whole box-full of these unguent pots all of which turned out to be plain except one or two . . '
Donor uknown
Height: 2.8 cm
Width: 3.2 cm
Method of acquisition: Unknown (1901) by Unknown
17th Century, second half#
18th Century, first half#
Circa
1650
CE
-
1750
CE
Throwing
: Tin-glazed earthenware.
Tin-glazing
Inscription present: a serrated edge label
Accession number: C.4-1901
Primary reference Number: 74990
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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