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Pottery: Unidentified Staffordshire Pottery
White salt-glazed stoneware bear with applied shredded clay fur and details in brown slip
Off-white stoneware, thrown in two parts, with applied ears, muzzle, chain, tail, genitals, and front legs and rear feet, covered in rough clay chippings to simulate fur, and decorated with dark brown slip details before salt-glazing. The bear has a slightly figure-of-eight shaped body with a tall cylindrical neck, long front legs, and just feet at the back. The head has a four link chain threaded through a hole on the top of the muzzle, which also has two irregularly-shaped oblong holes in its sides. The neck is decorated with nineteen large spots of brown slip, and there are smaller spots around the junction of the muzzle and head, and a line on the top of each ear. The eyes are formed by circles of clay filled in with brown slip.
History note: Fenton, Cranbourn Street, London from whom bought for ? £5.0.0. about 1898 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge; he was not sure if he might not have asked Fenton to buy it for him on commission from Sotheby's
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 24.6 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, Mid
George II
Circa
1740
CE
-
1770
CE
The detachable head serves as a cup.
Decoration
composed of
slip
( brown)
Surface
composed of
salt-glaze
Body
Depth 24 cm
Width 15.5 cm
Body And Head
Limbs, Features
off-white Stoneware
Inscription present: small rectangular stick-on label
Accession number: C.500 & A-1928
Primary reference Number: 75313
Old object number: 741
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Bear jug" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/75313 Accessed: 2024-11-24 22:08:21
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