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Factory: Unidentified Staffordshire factory
White salt-glazed stoneware, moulded in two parts, the lower part pierced, and inscribed in red enamel. Cylindrical ink pot with double walls, the outer wall pierced with perforations in the shape of the four different pips of a pack of cards within semi-circles of small holes. The cylindrical neck of the pot has a thread onto which the lid screws. The lid forming a sheath for a quill pen, is of tapering cylindrical form with a rounded end. On the base of the pot the initials and date 'H:P/1757' are painted with double lines in dark red enamel.
History note: Hasler/Hawley (?), a dealer at Boscombe, on 30 April 1917 for £20 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 17.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, third quarter#
George II
Production date:
dated
AD 1757
The manufacture involved the forming of a screw thread to join the two parts, a rare feature in white salt-glazed stoneware.
Inscription
composed of
enamel
( dark red)
Surface
composed of
salt-glaze
Base
Diameter 4.1 cm
Decoration
white Stoneware
Inscription present: letters have double outlines
Accession number: C.493 & A-1928
Primary reference Number: 75290
Old object number: 3744
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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