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Unidentified Staffordshire factory
(Factory)
White stoneware, press-moulded and salt-glazed. The wall pocket is in the shape of a woman's face with a bow in the hair at the top. The lower part of the face is flanked by rococo scrolls, and stylized acanthus leaves with oval depressions radiate from the top of her head. Below there are acanthus leaves forming a point. The flat back has a hole for suspension on the viewer's right, another is now missing due to loss of the upper part.
History note: Exhibition of English pottery held by Frederick Rathbone, Alfred Place, South Kensington, where purchased by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 21 cm
Width: 17 cm
Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed
(1928-12-07)
by
Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
Third quarter of 18th century
George II or George III
Circa
1755
CE
-
1770
CE
Wall pockets of this form have been attributed to Thomas Whieldon at Fenton Vivian, and to Thomas and John Wedgwood at Burslem, but they appear to have been made by several potters in the area
Surface composed of salt-glaze
Press-moulding : Off-white stoneware, press-moulded, and salt-glazed
Salt-glazing
Accession number: C.541-1928
Primary reference Number: 75466
Old object number: 483
Stable URI
Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2022)
"Wall pocket"
Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/75466 Accessed: 2022-05-22 11:27:54
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