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Production: Unidentified Frechen pottery (Probably)
Brown salt-glazed stoneware jug with a bulbous body and cylindrical neck
Grey stoneware, thrown with applied handle, coated with brown iron-wash, and salt-glazed. The jug has a bulbous body standing on a slightly spreading base, a cylindrical neck, and a small angular strap handle. There are turned bands round the base, the junction of the neck and body and below the rim at the top. The salt-glaze is coarse and mottled in varying shades of brown, one side being much darker than the other.
History note: Found in 1911 on Trinity College property in Gifford Place (behind the Blue Boar) on the site of the old Manor House; sold to Mr Morley, 20 Halifax Road, Cambridge; bought from him with another item for £1.10s. in March 1912 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 18.4 cm
Width: 12.4 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
16th Century, second half
Renaissance
Circa
1550
-
1600
Surface
composed of
salt-glaze
Base
Diameter 8.2 cm
Body
Exterior
buff-grey Stoneware
Accession number: C.2015-1928
Primary reference Number: 76570
Old object number: 3559
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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