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Leaf-shaped dish
Production: Unidentified Staffordshire Pottery
White salt-glazed stoneware dish in the shape of a leaf decorated with fox-glove leaves
Off-white stoneware, press moulded, and salt glazed. In the shape of a leaf with serrated edges, with the stem folded back around in to a loop, joining the dish. Three short, pointed feet on the underside. The outside of the tray is plain, while the inside is decorated to mimic the veins of a leaf, with fox-gloves in the middle.
History note: Mrs Mitchell, Southampton, from whom bought for £12 6s 0d. on 6 July 1920 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 2.8 cm
Length: 15.3 cm
Width: 9.2 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, Mid
Production date:
circa
AD 1755
Staffordshire; possibly Josiah Wedgwood from a mould attributed to William Greatbatch, c.1760-65
Surface
composed of
salt-glaze
Body
white Stoneware
Inscription present: rectangular white paper stick-on label
Accession number: C.550-1928
Primary reference Number: 75493
Old object number: 3728
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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