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Production: Unidentified Frechen pottery
Dark brown salt-glazed stoneware with an applied bearded face mask on the neck and a figure 4 incised on the front below it
Grey-buff stoneware, thrown, with an applied handle, moulded and applied decoration, and incised number, coated with a dark iron-brown wash, and salt-glazed. The jug has an ovoid body contracting at the top into a short cylindrical neck to which the small handle is attached. A bearded face mask s applied to the front of the neck, and below it on the front is an incised figure '4'.
History note: Fenton’s, Oxford Street, London, where bought in 1893 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 46 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
17th Century, Late
Circa
1675
-
1700
Surface
composed of
salt-glaze
Body
Accession number: C.2026-1928
Primary reference Number: 76579
Old object number: 669
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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