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Production: Unknown
Earthenware, the body thrown, slip-coated, and incised under lead glaze. Bulbous body, flaring neck pinched into a lip in front, with a loop handle. On the front flanked by two unicorns and two birds, is a bust with the initials and date 'CL 1703/4'. Below the handle is a tulip, and, on the neck, flowers. Round the shoulders is the inscription 'now I am com for to supply youre workmen/when in haruist dry when they doe Labour harde and sweat/good drink is better for then meate: in winter time when it is coold/i Likewise then good drinke can hould: booth seasons doe the same require/and most men doe good drinke desire'
History note: J. Dunn, 11 Taw Vale, Barnstaple, Devonshire; sold Sotheby's, 2 December 1923, The Property of J. Dunn, Esq. sen., lot 155; purchased by Mr Hunt on behalf of Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 29.2 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, Early#
1703
CE
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1704
CE
Decoration incised through slip (sgraffito decoration) was characteristic of Devon-slipware between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries.
Inside And Outside
composed of
lead-glaze
Exterior
composed of
slip
Body
Decoration
Inscription present: the 4 appears below the 3, under a horizontal line
Accession number: Gl.C.58-1928
Primary reference Number: 77086
Glaisher MS Catalogue: 4269
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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