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Cornucopia wall pocket
Production: Unidentified Staffordshire factory
White salt-glazed stoneware in the form of a cornucopia with a winged cherub's head on the front
Off-white stoneware, press-moulded, and salt-glazed. The wall pocket is in the shape of a cornucopia with a flat back, pierced by two suspension holes. The lower part of the front is gadrooned, The upper part is fluted to resemble a frill with a shaped edge. Between these areas there is cherub's head integrally moulded in relief, flanked by wings in lower relief. The cherub's eyes are painted in dark brown slip.
History note: Hodgkin Collection, sold privately to Harding, King Street, St. James, from whom purchased for £9 on 16 January 1914 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge.
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 24.1 cm
Width: 18.7 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, Mid
George II
Circa
1740
-
1760
Decoration
composed of
slip
( dark brown two spots)
Surface
composed of
salt-glaze
Front
off-white or putty-coloured Stoneware
Accession number: C.534-1928
Primary reference Number: 75449
Old object number: 3703
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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