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Plate: C.60-1992

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Current Location: Gallery 27 (Glaisher)

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Factory: uncertain

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Description

Earthenware painted underglaze in blue with 'pagoda and fence' pattern

White earthenware, moulded, and painted in blue under very slightly blue lead-glaze. Circular with scalloped shell-moulded edge, gently sloping rim and deep well. Decorated in the middle with an Oriental style building, fences, and stylized trees and bushes beside a lake (a version of 'pagoda and fence' pattern), with groups of three dots in the sky. There is a trellis border round the sides of the well, and the outer edge is blue.

Notes

History note: Mrs Joan Eve, Cambridge

Legal notes

Given by Mrs Joan Eve

Measurements and weight

Diameter: 24.5 cm
Height: 2.9 cm

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Given (1992) by Eve, Joan

Dating

18th Century, Late
Circa 1780 CE - 1800 CE

Note

Plates moulded with shell edging were among the most common plate forms made in creamware and pearlware in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. 'Pagoda and fence' patterns also known as 'Chinese house' patterns,were produced by several Staffordshire and Yorkshire potters. The plate belongs to an as yet unattributed group of underglaze blue designs,which have clusters of three dots in the background, possibly indicating birds. See Documentation, Roberts, 2006.

School or Style

Oriental style

Components of the work

Glaze composed of lead-glaze
Decoration

Materials used in production

Earthenware

Techniques used in production

Moulding : Earthenware, moulded, and painted in blue under very slightly blue lead-glaze.

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Identification numbers

Accession number: C.60-1992
Primary reference Number: 75622

Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Tuesday 18 February 2025

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts

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