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Production: Unidentified Staffordshire Pottery
White stoneware, press-moulded, and salt-glazed. The flower-holder is in the shape of a cornucopia decorated in relief on the front with a half-figure of Flora in a rococo-scrolled panel, with a frill-like border on either side, and below a stem of ivy twined round the tapering lower part. There are three pierced holes in the top edge, and three on each side of the panel.
History note: Messrs Oates and Mason, Stamford; who sent it on approval to Bournemouth, where bought for £6.0.0. on 19 July 1918 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 27.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, third quarter#
George III
Circa
1760
-
1770
Wall pockets of this design were also made in lead-glazed earthenware, and many examples are known. Invoices for 'Cornu Copias' , both for block moulds, and finished items, have associated their manufacture with William Greatbatch of Fenton, and Thomas & John Wedgwood, of Burslem, but there are cornucopia flower holders of several different designs so it is not possible to attribute this example conclusively. It seems likely that they were made by several other north Staffordshire potters between about 1760 and 1770. The female figure is usually identified as Flora, an ancient Italian goddess of flowers and spring.
Surface
composed of
salt-glaze
Front
Accession number: C.543-1928
Primary reference Number: 75477
Old object number: 3900
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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