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Factory: Unidentified Staffordshire factory
White stoneware, moulded with decoration in relief, pierced, and salt-glazed
White stoneware, moulded, the cover pierced, and salt-glazed. The caster has a bulbous body with a long neck and a spreading foot. The domed cover is perforated with a large group of holes forming a lozenge-shape in the centre, and four groups of six holes forming triangles round the edges. The sides are decorated with panels of two different trellis patterns one above the other, and with a band of wickerwork round the top. There are bands of shallow gadrooning round the foot and edge of the cover. There is a circular hole in the bottom for filling.
History note: Mr Jolley, Cambridge, from whom purchased for £6.10s. on 6 October 1917, Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 12.8 cm
Width: 5.9 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
-
1770
CE
The form echoes the elongated pear-shaped forms of pewter and silver casters
Surface
composed of
salt-glaze
Foot
Width 5.5 cm
Cover
Moulding
: White stoneware, moulded, the cover pierced, and salt-glazed
Salt-glazing
Inscription present: rectangular white paper stick-on label with two black lines round the left top and right edges
Accession number: C.561-1928
Primary reference Number: 75526
Old object number: 3741
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Pepper castor" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/75526 Accessed: 2024-04-18 06:24:13
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Accession Number: C.1803-1928
Accession Number: C.1176A & B-1928
Accession Number: C.2726-1928
Accession Number: C.86-1997
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