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Production: Unidentified Staffordshire Pottery
White salt-glazed stoneware figure of a man
Off-white stoneware, press moulded, with brown slip and salt glaze. The man is standing with his right arm at waist level, and his left at his chest. He wears a wig with a queue, a long robe decorated with geometric motifs down the back, and buttons at the front, and either long boots or stockings and shoes. His eyes have been touched with brown slip. In front of the figure there is a semi-circle of ground with incised striations. The underside is open.
History note: J. Henry Griffith Collection, 336 Hagley Road, Birmingham; sold to Frank Stoner, London, from whom bought on the 5 October 1925 for £30, by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 9.2 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, Mid
George II
Circa
1745
CE
-
1755
CE
Eyes
composed of
slip
( brown)
Surface
composed of
salt-glaze
Base
Width 3.5 cm
Body
Decoration
white Stoneware
Accession number: C.795-1928
Primary reference Number: 76069
Old object number: 4835
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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