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Factory: Unidentified Staffordshire factory
Red-dry-boded stoneware with engine-turned decoration. The body is barrel-shaped with a slightly expanding mouth, an applied pounted lip, and a reeded strap handle. The whole of the exterior is decorated with turned roups of wavy horizontal bands. The base is impressed with a pseudo Chinese seal mark.
History note: Sotheby's, London, 6 February, 1908, part of lot 227 bought by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 10.1 cm
Width: 12.3 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, third quarter#
George III
Circa
1760
CE
-
1775
CE
Base
Diameter 5.5 cm
Body
Decoration
unglazed Red dry-bodied stoneware
Inscription present: square
Inscription present: Rectangular white paper stick-on label with a Prussian blue plant motif in two top corners
Accession number: C.476-1928
Primary reference Number: 75228
Old object number: 2757
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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