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Factory: Unidentified Staffordshire factory
White salt-glazed stoneware with relief decoration.
White stoneware press-moulded with integral relief decoration, and salt-glazed. Circular with a scalloped edge, gently sloping rim, and curved well, standing on a very slight footring. In the middle is a circular medallion with a rope edge, enclosing a triangular arrangement of rococo scrolls surrounded by tightly woven basketwork. Outside the medallion there are panels of trellis work and stripes surrounded by rococo scrolls, and pears, melons, apples, and nuts and leaves in relief. The rim is decorated with basketwork.
History note: Ownership unknown before Mrs W. D. Dickson, Bournemouth, who gave it on 14 October 1926 to Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Diameter: 27.6 cm
Height: 2.8 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, Mid#
George II
George III
Circa
1755
CE
-
1765
This dish is similar to C.558-1928 but has no pierced holes in the basketwork border. The fruit motifs probably indicate that it was intended to be used for fruit or nuts in the dessert course of dinner.
Surface composed of salt-glaze
white Stoneware
Press-moulding
: White stoneware, press-moulded with integral relief decoration, and salt-glazed
Salt-glazing
Accession number: C.559-1928
Primary reference Number: 75521
Old catalogue number: 4906
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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