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Production: Unidentified Staffordshire factory
White stoneware, slip-cast, with applied moulded feet, and salt-glaze. The pear-shaped pot has a projecting, upward tilting lip, a scalloped and cusped rim, a reeded loop handle with a kick at the lower end, and three shell and paw feet. Both sides are decorated in relief with a large pecten shell, and on either side of the lip there is a snail and two small pecten shells. On each side of the upper junction of the handle there is a leaf.
History note: Given by Col. and Mrs W.D. Dickson of Bournemouth as a birthday present on 5 November 1920 to Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambidge
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 8.7 cm
Length: 8.2 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, Mid
Circa
1750
-
1760
This small jug is surprisingly light in the hand because it is slip cast. A master block from which moulds were made for a slightly squatter jug with pecten shell reliefs on the sides is initialled RW for Ralph Wood.and dated 1749 is in the Victoria and Albert Museum
Surface
composed of
salt-glaze
Body
Feet
Accession number: C.587-1928
Primary reference Number: 75588
Old object number: 3905
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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