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Factory: Unidentified Staffordshire factory
Red dry-bodied stoneware, thrown and decorated with engine-turning. The bowl has deep curved sides and stands on a footring. The shallow domed cover has a flange which fits inside the bowl, and a fluted cone-shaped knob. The bowl is decorated with horizontal wavy bands with six groups of five vertical lines at intervals. The cover has wavy concentric circles of different widths radiating from the knob.
History note: Sotheby's, 6 February, 1908, part of lot 227; Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 10.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, third quarter#
George III
Circa
1765
-
1770
Cover
Diameter 10.2 cm
Foot
Diameter 5.1 cm
Bowl
Diameter 9.1 cm
Decoration
unglazed Red dry-bodied stoneware
Inscription present: square
Accession number: C.453 & A-1928
Primary reference Number: 75159
Old object number: 2754
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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