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Cornucopia Wall Pocket
Unidentified Staffordshire factory
(Production)
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
Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed
(1928-12-07)
by
Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
Mid 18th Century
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
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2022)
"Cornucopia Wall Pocket"
Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/75539 Accessed: 2022-05-29 04:23:22
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