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Pottery: Unidentified Liverpool pottery
Tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue with flowers and an insription
Buff earthenware, pierced, tin-glazed bluish-white and painted in blue. Circular with straight sides, a slightly sloping shoulder pierced by four holes for quills, and a domed upper part with a cyldinrical mouth. The sides are decorated with flowers, foliage, and a flying insect. The shoulder is encircled by four panels of trellis diaper. The domed area is inscribed 'Samuel Gardner. London W.G: Fecit. 1756.'
History note: F. Bennett-Goldney; sold Puttick and Simpson, 4 March, 1920, lot 46; Cecil Baring, 3rd Lord Revelstoke (d. 1934); sold Puttick & Simpson, 17 May, 1935, lot 117; Dr and Mrs H. Bellamy Gardener; Sotheby's, 12 June 1941, Catalogue of the Celebrated Collection of Chelsea Porcelain, English Ceramics and Enamels, the property of Dr and Mrs Bellamy Gardner, lot 98
Purchased with the Glaisher Fund
Diameter: 9.3 cm
Diameter: 3 5/8 in
Height: 8.8 cm
Height: 3½ in
Method of acquisition: Bought (1941-12-06) by Sotheby's
18th Century, Mid
George II
Production date:
dated
AD 1756
The initials could stand for William Griffith, who ran the Lambeth High Street pottery from about 1740 until 1761 when he died.
Decoration
composed of
cobalt
Shoulder
buff
Earthenware
slightly blue
Tin-glaze
Accession number: EC.27-1941
Primary reference Number: 76927
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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