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Production: Unidentified Frechen pottery
Greyish-buff stoneware, with brown iron wash, producing a mottled surface under the salt-glaze. The jug has a bulbous body standing on a low slightly spreading foot, a cylindrical neck,with a cordon at its junction with the body, and a loop handle with a vertical groove.
History note: Found at the bottom of a well about 10 feet deep under staircase L in the Great Court of Trinity College, Cambridge in the summer of 1908 when the interiors of staircases L, M, and N were rebuilt. Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge.
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 17.8 cm
Width: 13.6 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
16th Century, second half#
Renaissance
Circa
1550
-
1600
Suface
composed of
salt-glaze
Base
Diameter 7.3 cm
Body
Surface
Inscription present: rectangular piece of pale cream paper
Accession number: C.2016-1928
Primary reference Number: 76571
Old object number: 3219
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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