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Pottery: unidentified English pottery
Yellow-glazed earthenware bat-printed in black and painted in black enamel
Yellow-glazed earthenware, bat-printed in black and painted in black enamel. Barrel-shaped body with recessed base, projecting lip, and loop handle. Printed on both sides with a vignette of a mother seated on a Grecian style chaise longue, holding a small child across her knee with both hands. Below the handle there is a narrow horizontal black enamel band, and there is another round the rim which extends over it into a wider band on the interior. On the back of the handle there is a spot, an anthemion motif, a long stroke, and on the lower end a spot.
History note: Given to the donor's mother by his father for one of her birthdays; inherited by G.H.W. Rylands Litt.D., CBE, CH, King's College, Cambridge
Given by G.H.W. Rylands in memory of his mother, Betha Wolferstan Rylands
Height: 11 cm
Width: 14.9 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (1997-10-13) by Rylands, G.H.W.
19th Century, Early#
George III
George IV
Circa
1800
CE
-
1825
CE
Decoration
composed of
ceramic printing colour
( black)
enamel
( black)
Body
Handle
yellow
Lead-glaze
Earthenware
Accession number: C.88-1997
Primary reference Number: 76281
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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