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Factory: Unidentified Staffordshire factory
White stoneware, press-moulded, pierced, and salt-glazed
White stoneware, press-moulded with relief decoration, pierced, and salt-glazed. Circular with a wavy edge, sloping sides and curved well. The central medallion is filled by five dot-filled and asterisk-filled squares forming a grid pattern. It is surrounded by eight cartouches of alternately five dot- or asterisk-filled trellis flanked by scrolls, with basket weave or plain areas between them. Round the rim there are alternating areas of basket-weave and herring-bone pattern between four cartouches of five dot- or asterisk-filled trellis flanked by scrolls, and four groups of pierced lozenges.
History note: Purchased in Cambridge at an unknown date by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Diameter: 21.5 cm
Height: 2.9 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, third quarter#
George II
George III
Circa
1755
CE
-
1765
CE
Surface
composed of
salt-glaze
Decoration
Press-moulding
: White stoneware, press-moulded, pierced, and salt-glazed
Salt-glazing
Accession number: C.554-1928
Primary reference Number: 75510
Old object number: 133
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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