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Tankard: C.2052-1928

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Current Location: In storage

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Production: Unidentified Westerwald pottery

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Grey salt-glazed stoneware decorated with applied reliefs of galloping horses, and incised foliage reserved in a blue ground

Grey stoneware, thrown, with applied handle, decorated with incising and applied moulded reliefs, reserved in a blue (smalt) ground, and salt-glazed. The cylindrical tankard has a loop handle with a hole at the top for the attachment of a hinged thumbpiece. The top of the sides contract above the top of the handle to create a slight ledge to take a mount. The sides are decorated with a symmetrical pattern made up six rectangular reliefs of pairs of galloping horses amids foliage, each relief having one curved side, Two at the top are placed with the horses the right way up, two at the bottom with them upside down, and two in the middle with them sideways. In the spaces between the reliefs are occupied by incised foliated scrolls on the right and left, and serrated edged leaves at centre front, reserved in a blue ground. The area under and on both sides of the handle is undecorated. The top and bottom are encircled by a row of blue spots.

Notes

History note: Thomas Sutton, Eastbourne, from whom purchased in March 1905, for £1 5s.0d (25s.) by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambidge

Legal notes

Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest

Measurements and weight

Height: 17 cm
Width: 15.5 cm

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr

Dating

18th Century, third quarter
Circa 1750 - 1775

Components of the work

Decoration composed of smalt ( smalt was produced by fusing cobalt with an alkali, usually potash, and sand, to produce a glassy mass which was ground up to a powder mixed with water)
Surface composed of salt-glaze
Base Diameter 10.2 cm
Body

Materials used in production

grey Stoneware

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Identification numbers

Accession number: C.2052-1928
Primary reference Number: 76585
Old object number: 2286

Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Monday 29 April 2024

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Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts

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