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Factory: Unidentified Staffordshire factory
Off-white stoneware, press-moulded, and salt-glazed. Circular with a sloping rim with twelve arcs round the edge, a shallow well with curved sides, and slightly recessed base. The well is decorated overall with a delicate spray of leaves and berries on a veined background, and the rim with six groups of three acanthus leaves of which the central one projects inwards, on a trellis ground. A small piece of debris from the kiln has adhered to the back of the rim.
History note: Sainsbury’s shop (which for forty years was Harvey’s) opposite the Post Office at Bournemouth where bought for 12s.6d. at the same time as C.556-1928, on 2 January 1924 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge.
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Diameter: 22 cm
Height: 2 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
-
1770
CE
Plates of similar design were produced in cream earthenware with tortoiseshell glaze, see C.701A-1928 and 701B-1928
Surface composed of salt-glaze
Press-moulding
: White stoneware, press-moulded, and salt-glazed
Salt-glazing
Inscription present: white paper label, square with cut corners, and a blue line border on five sides
Accession number: C.557-1928
Primary reference Number: 75517
Old object number: 4242
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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