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Production: Unidentified Staffordshire Pottery
White salt glazed stoneware cream/milk jug, decorated in scratch-blue with flowers
Off-white stoneware, thrown, with applied handle, decorated in scratch blue before salt-glazing. Small, with a pear shaped body with a projecting lip and wavy rim standing on a flat base. The loop handle has a ridge down the middle. The front is decorated with a stylized plant with foliage and buds on the left and a large flower on the right.
History note: Bought from Mr Wordingham of Cambridge, for £6.10s. on 12 February 1921 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 8 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, Mid
George II
Production date:
circa
AD 1750
Decoration
composed of
cobalt oxide
Surface
composed of
salt-glaze
Of Mouth
Diameter 5.3 cm
Total
Width 7.7 cm
Body
Handle
white Stoneware
Inscription present: faint
Accession number: C.508-1928
Primary reference Number: 75338
Old object number: 3743
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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