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Production: Unknown (Probably)
Red earthenware, coated with white slip under mottled greenish-yellow lead-glaze, with modelled and applied decoration in high relief on the finial. Of inverted V-shaped section with at one end a finial in the form of a globe, with a crown on the top and the middle two cherubs, a griffin, and a fourth ornament (missing).
History note: From the Manor House at Ilfracombe, built in 1561. Rennie Manderson, Bull Hill, Pilton, Barnstaple, North Devon, from whom purchased on 2 December 1924, for £10 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge. The tile arrived in Cambridge on 13 December 1924.
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 37.4 cm
Length: 48.2 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
17th Century#
Circa
1600
CE
-
1700
CE
One of two tiles which came frrom the Manor House at Ilfracombe, built in 1561, now demolished. The other is in the British Museum.
Decoration
Accession number: GL.C.69-1928
Primary reference Number: 77098
Glaisher MS Catalogue: 4480
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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