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Pottery: Unidentified Staffordshire Pottery
Red dry-bodied stoneware, thrown and turned, with mould-applied reliefs. The mug has a bell-shaped body with a low foot and an applied crabstock loop handle. The sides are decorated wtih two vine branches extending from either side of the handle, each with three leaves and a bunch of grapes on the end. The outlines of the moulds are clearly visible.
History note: A woman who had come from Staffordshire living at Buntingord, who sold it on 7 May 1913 to the Cambridge dealer, Mr Woolston; he sold it on 8 May for £1 to Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge.
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 6.8 cm
Width: 8 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, third quarter#
George II or George III
Production date:
circa
AD 1760
When acquired by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher the mug was described as Elers ware, but it was thrown, and not slip-cast as the Elers brothers wares were, and probably dates from about 1760 when red dry-bodied stoneware came into fashion again. The lines running round the sprigs, indicate that the decoration was applied from stamps pressed onto the ware.
Rim
Diameter 5.5 cm
Decoration
Foot And Rim
Throwing : Red dry-bodied stoneware, thrown and turned, with mould-applied relief decoration
Inscription present: square white paper label with red border line on right and left
Accession number: C.464-1928
Primary reference Number: 75193
Old object number: 3635
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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