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Maker/s	Hoyle, John Phillips
Collection	J.W.L. Glaisher
Category	lead-glazed earthenware slipware
Name	money box
Description	Money box. Earthenware, slip-coated with incised decoration under lead glaze. Depressed globular form with knob on the top, and projecting ridge below the slot. Above the slot is inscribed 'John hoyle' and crude notched decoration.
Production Place	Bideford (production) (place) North Devon (production) (region) Devon (production) (county) England (production) (country)
Technique Description	earthenware, slip-coated with incised decoration under lead glaze
Dimensions	height: (whole): 8.5 cm width:
Period	mid-19th Century
Date	circa 1840 to 1860
Provenance	bequeathed: Glaisher, J.W.L., Dr 1928 (Filtered for: Applied Arts collection) Charbonnier Collection, Lynton; Purchased by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, 1912
Inscriptions/Marks	name Position: above the slot Method: incised Content: John hoyle
Documentation	Rackham, Bernard (1935 (reprinted Antique Collectors' Club, Woodbridge, 1987)) Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge, Cambridge (Cambs.): Cambridge University Press [page: p. 13] [comments: Publ. Vol. I, p. 13, no. 76] Charbonnier, T. Notes on North Devon Pottery of the Seventeenth, Eighteenth and Ninteenth Centuries, Source title: Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art (1906) [comments: Ref.]
Other Notes
Accession Number	GL.C.76-1928 (Applied Arts) (Reference Number: 76011; Input Date: 2002-11-20 / Last Edit: 2011-07-22)

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