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Potter: Unidentified Pottery (Uncertain)
Earthenware dish with crinkled edge, the interior coated in dark brown slip, and slip-trailed in two shades of brown and cream with a symetrical floral floral design, under lead-glaze
Dark buff earthenware, slip-coated on the interior in dark brown, slip-trailed in light brown and white, and lead-glazed. The reverse is undecorated. The dish is circular with deep curved sides and a crinkled edge, produced by impressing a semi-circular tool or stick. The surface is entirely occupied by a triangular stem with a large rosette at the top flanked by leaves, and lower down, curved stems bearing large semi-circular flowers with wavy edges (perhaps tulips), and below them, stems bearing triangular seed heads or leaves.
History note: Bishops' at Bideford; sent on approval to Cambridge on 22 November 1924, where it arrived on 24 November, and was purchased for £10.10s. by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Diameter: 34.3 cm
Height: 7.2 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, first half
Circa
1700
CE
-
1750
CE
When Dr Glaisher bought this dish, he attributed it to Cock Pitt Hill in Derbyshire, but had doubts if that was correct. Bernard Rackham, in his Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection (1935) attributed it to Bolsover in Derbyshire on the grounds of fragments of slipware found there, but this is uncertain. It might have been made in Staffordshire or elsewhere in northern England. A dish of a different shape with a dark brown ground, slip trailed with a plant with a tulip at the top, and on either side at its base, triangular motifs similar to those on this dish, and with the initials SM moulded in relief, has been attributed to Samuel Malkin of Burslem. The plant design seems have been influenced by English delftware floral dishes known as blue dash chargers which have tulips, or roses and other flowers and buds springing from a central point at the lower edge of the dish when upright.
Decoration
composed of
slip
( dark brown, brown and cream)
Surface
composed of
lead-glaze
Front Surface
Front
dark buff Earthenware
Moulded : Earthenware, slip-coated in dark red, with slip-trailed decoration in brown and cream, under lead-glaze
Inscription present: rectangular white paper stick on label with upper corners cut and blue-black line round the side and top edges
Accession number: GL.C.53-1928
Primary reference Number: 77079
Glaisher MS Catalogue: 4464
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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