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Factory: Unidentified Staffordshire factory
Dark red earthenware with applied moulded reliefs, black lead-glaze, and oil gilding
Dark red earthenware, the body thrown, with applied moulded handle, spout, feet, and finial, and applied moulded sprigs, the whole covered with black lead-glaze, and partly gilded. The pot has a depressed globular body supported on three lion's mask and paw feet, a crabstock handle and spout, and a domed cover with a bird finial. Both sides of the body are decorated with a coiling vine-stem with bunches of grapes and foliage in relief, which have been oil gilded.
History note: Bryan T. Harland Collection; sold Sotheby's, October 12, 1923, A fine collection of Ralph Wood, Whieldon and Astbury pottery, the property of Bryan T. Harland Esq., F.S.A., J.P., who is changing his residence, part of lot 17; bought for £2.16.6 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
Accession number: C.709 & A-1928
Primary reference Number: 75874
Old object number: 4289
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The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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