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Cornucopia Wall Pocket
Production: Unidentified Staffordshire factory
Brownish-black and white clay 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 three broad short diagonal strokes, three spots, and a band round the top edge.
History note: Private collector; Mr S. Fenton, London, from whom bought for £10 on 25 January 1911 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 18.2 cm
Width: 13.2 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, Mid
George II
Circa
1745
CE
-
1755
CE
Decoration
composed of
cobalt
Surface
composed of
salt-glaze
Holes
brownish-black and white agateware Stoneware
Press-moulding : Brownish-black and white clay agateware, press-moulded in two halves, joined, and decorated with cobalt oxide before salt-glazing
Accession number: C.567-1928
Primary reference Number: 75539
Old object number: 3355
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Cornucopia Wall Pocket" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/75539 Accessed: 2024-12-18 14:13:46
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