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Factory: Wedgwood, Aaron (Possibily)
White stoneware coated with a dip containing cobalt, and salt-glazed
White salt-glazed stoneware, the body thrown and turned, with applied moulded handle and spout, coated on the exterior with a dip containing cobalt, and salt-glazed. The underside is partially unglazed and has five stilt marks. The pot has a globular body standing on a circular disk base, a crabstock handle with two flattened areas on the top, and a slightly curved upward tilting spout, behind which the body is pierced by four holes. The flat circular cover has a ball-shaped knob with a central hole. A splodge of the blue dip has fallen inside the pot.
History note: Puttick and Simpson, London, 17 January 1919, part of lot 101; bought by Mr Stoner on behalf of Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 11.5 cm
Length: 21.3 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, third quarter#
George II
Circa
1750
CE
-
Circa
1765
CE
Surface
composed of
dip
( blue)
salt-glaze
Body
Exterior
Inscription present: circular white paper stick-on label with black line border, collection name printed in black, the number hand-written in black
Accession number: C.613 & A-1928
Primary reference Number: 75643
Old object number: 3910
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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