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Cornucopia Wall Pocket
Production: Unidentified Staffordshire factory
Brownish-black and white agateware, press-moulded in two halves, joined, and decorated with cobalt oxide before salt-glazing. The flower holder is in the shape of a cornucopia with wrythen fluting on the lower part, a wavy top, and a partly flat back pierced at the top by two holes for suspension. The front is decorated in cobalt with four diagonal stripes, three spots, and a band round the top edge.
History note: Bryan T. Harland, 35 Park Hill Road, Croydon; sold Sotheby's, 12 October, 1923, A fine collection of Ralph Wood, Whieldon and Astbury pottery, the property of Bryan T. Harland Esq., F.S.A., J.P., who is changing his residence, lot 199; sold for £8.8s.0d. to Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 18.5 cm
Width: 13 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, Mid
George II
Circa
1745
-
1755
Decoration
composed of
cobalt
Surface
composed of
salt-glaze
Front
agateware Stoneware
Accession number: C.566-1928
Primary reference Number: 75538
Old object number: 4288
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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