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Red stoneware, thrown, and decorated with bands of engine-turning. The jug has a pear-shaped body and stands on a foot with a gadrooned edge. It has a projecting lip, and a reeded handle, The wavy bands of engine turning begin about 1.2 cm below the rim, and are interrupted by five groups of five vertical lines.On the base there is a pseudo-Chinese seal mark
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 10 cm
Width: 9.1 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
Production date: circa AD 1770
Base
Diameter 5.7 cm
Decoration
Handle
dry-bodied Red dry-bodied stoneware
Throwing (pottery technique) : Red stoneware, thrown with applied lip and moulded handle, decorated with horizontal bands of engine-turning
Inscription present: imitation Chinese seal mark
Accession number: C.470-1928
Primary reference Number: 75206
Old object number: 28
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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