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Factory: Unidentified Staffordshire factory
Off-white stoneware, thrown in two parts, with applied decoration simulating feathers, brown slip eyes and claws, and salt-glazed. On the head and body there are the stumps of missing handles
History note: Unknown owner in Leamington; Mr George Stonor, London, from whom bought for £60 on 10 December 1915 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, Trinity College, Cambridge.
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 22 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, Mid
George II
Circa
1740
CE
-
1760
CE
This owl is much cruder than the other white salt-glazed stoneware owl jug in the Glaisher Collection, C. 497-1928. A comparable example is in the British Museum, inv. no. 1972,0503.1.
Eyes And Claws
composed of
brown slip
Surface
composed of
salt-glaze
Body
Height 17 cm
Width 11.5 cm
Head
Width 10 cm
Feet And Feathers
white Stoneware
Throwing : White stoneware, thrown, in two parts, with applied hand-modelled feet and feathers,
Accession number: C.496 & A-1928
Primary reference Number: 75297
Old object number: 3738
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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