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Production: Unidentified Staffordshire factory
Red stoneware decorated with engine-turning
Red dry-bodied stoneware, thrown, with applied foot, and knob, decorated with engine-turning. Circular with deep curved sides, standing on a gadrooned footring. The circular convex cover has a hemi-spherical knob with a raised apex. The exterior of the bowl is decorated overall with engine-turned wavy horizontal lines with groups of five vertical ridges at intervals.T he cover has radiating concentric wavy circles with six groups of radiating vertical ridges. The knob is undecorated.
History note: Sotheby's, 6 February, 1908, one of two items in lot 228; Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 11.1 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
Circa 1770 - 1780
Cover
Diameter 14.5 cm
Bowl
Diameter 14 cm
Foot
Diameter 7.8 cm
Decoration
dry-bodied Red dry-bodied stoneware
Throwing (pottery technique) : Dry0bodied red stoneware, thrown with applied foot and knob, decorated with engine-turning
Accession number: C.474 & A-1928
Primary reference Number: 75224
Old object number: 2753
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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