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Production: Unidentified Staffordshire factory
White salt-glazed stoneware plate decorated in scratch blue with flowering plants and the initials 'H B'
White stoneware, press-moulded, decorated in scratch blue technique, and salt-glazed. Circular with a wavy, alternately curved and indented edge (silver shape), broad rim, shallow sloping sides and flat centre. The rim is moulded in relief with six panels of the seed or barley corn pattern. The well is decorated in scratch-blue with two different flowering plants perhaps chrysanthemum and peony, placed asymetrically with between them the initials 'H B'.
History note: Cyril Andrade; his sale, Puttick & Simpson, 23 October 1925, lot 77, bought for £5 5s.0d. by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College Cambridge
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Diameter: 24 cm
Height: 2.4 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, Mid
George II
Circa
1755
-
1760
Decoration
composed of
cobalt oxide
Surface
composed of
salt-glaze
Whole Surface
white Stoneware
Press-moulding : White stoneware, press-moulded, and decorated in scratch blue before salt-glazing
Inscription present: rectangular white paper label with cut corners and dark blue line running round the edge
Accession number: C.510-1928
Primary reference Number: 75343
Old object number: 4639
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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