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Factory: Unidentified Staffordshire factory
White salt-glazed stoneware with scratch-blue floral decoration
Off-white stoneware, thrown and turned, with dark scratch-blue decoration, applied handle, and salt-glaze. Cylindrical with a turned band round the rim, and two above the slightly splayed base; the strap handle has longitudinal lines on the edges, and pinched lower terminal. The font is decorated with an incised design of three stylized flowers with striated petals on a spray of foliage with curling tendrils coloured with dark cobalt blue
History note: Acquired from an unidentified owner near Bristol by Bowden, Wardour Street, London, from whom purchased for £3 on 20 June 1903 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Diameter: 9.9 cm
Height: 15 cm
Width: 10.9 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, third quarter#
Circa
1750
CE
-
1770
CE
Decoration
composed of
cobalt
Surface
composed of
salt-glaze
Body
Accession number: C.509-1928
Primary reference Number: 75340
Old object number: 2124
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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