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Production: Unidentified factory
Yellow-glazed earthenware, transfer-printed in faint dark brown and banded in silver (platinum) lustre
Yellow-glazed earthenware, transfer-printed in faint dark brown and banded in silver (platinum) lustre. Cylindrical wtih a loop handle. Decorated on the front with an elongated octagonal frame decorated with flower heads reserved in a striated ground, enclosing the inscription 'For my dear Boy' with a length of 'rope' below and a lenth of 'rope' and a flower above. The rim is encircled by a lustre band.
History note: Uncertain before donor, G.H.W. Rylands, Litt.D., CBE, CH, King's College, Cambridge
Given by G.H.W. Rylands in memory of his mother, Betha Wolferstan Rylands
Height: 5 cm
Width: 6.2 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (1997-07-14) by Rylands, G.H.W.
1820s
George IV
Circa
1820
CE
-
1830
CE
Probably made in Staffordshire or Tyneside
Decoration composed of ceramic printing colour ( faint dark brown)
yellow
Lead-glaze
Earthenware
Accession number: C.46-1997
Primary reference Number: 75187
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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