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Production: Unidentified Staffordshire factory
White salt-glazed stoneware, with applied medallion and incised decoration coloured with cobalt blue
Off-white salt-glazed stoneware, thrown, turned, and decorated with an applied moulded medallion, and incised decoration coloured with cobalt blue. The elongated baluster-shaped body has a narrow cylindrical neck with horizontal turned reeding around it. A strap handle of shallow triangular profile is attached on one side. On the front there is an applied oval medallion moulded with a crude bust of a crowned king flanked by the initials GR (for Georgius Rex). This is surrounded by six incised petals flanked by incised sprays of foliage, all coloured blue within the outlines. The neck is also coloured blue.
History note: Unknown before Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 16 cm
Width: 10.4 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, third quarter#
George III
Circa
1760
CE
-
1780
CE
The king referred to by the initials GR was is probably George III who came to the throne in 1760. The colouring and medallion were influenced by German salt-glazed stoneware from the Westerwald area. Wares of this type can be attributed to Staffordshire on the basis of sherds found at sites in Burslem.
Decoration
composed of
cobalt oxide
Surface
composed of
salt-glaze
Base
Diameter 6.5 cm
Body
off-white Stoneware
Accession number: C.530-1928
Primary reference Number: 75435
Old object number: R.529
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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