1592999652000 1312637261000 Standard Record object-74735 1755194596915 1711380361000 1755194516185 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-74735 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/74735 f446b6ab-f7e8-3518-8071-9679357d8fd6 6 person reference agent-150801 adlib-agent-150801 fce1672b-fc3b-3552-acac-54e1fa435ec1 Absalom reference term-108348 adlib-term-108348 667e7a19-db33-3d85-bd9b-c2dafd8e02ff tin-glazed earthenware reference term-110399 adlib-term-110399 c2c214aa-c7b2-3bbe-8460-214ed187b114 English delftware blue from cobalt reference term-110730 adlib-term-110730 dae0f074-4d74-3f73-9137-7e8bbb36a2ce high-temperature colour Decoration reference term-106226 adlib-term-106226 194567f2-2bcd-3446-ae31-652386611815 painting Applied Arts tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue; the Death of Absalom, with other figures, detached sprigs, animals, and buildings; inscribed on the back 'EW/widdor January/ye 20 Day A yard/1703 Reddish-buff earthenware with very pale turquoise glaze, painted in blue. Circular with a wide rim, shallow curved sides and flat centre, standing on a footring. Decorated in the middle with the 'Death of Absalom' and over the rest of the flat area with scattered motifs of a tall building, houses, figures of men and animals, floral sprigs and trees. The rim is decorated with similar motifs, the animals and figures orientated with their feet near the outer edge. The back is inscribed within the footing 'E:W/Widdor January/te 20 Day A yard/1703'. The back of the well is decorated with groups of four small circles alternating with larger circles, and the rim with striped ovals alternating with crossed batons with leaves in the spaces. reference exhibition-1682 adlib-exhibition-1682 4e7148c5-e3d5-3b39-8195-7ad42d347c5f Variations on Ceramic Themes, Big is Beautiful? C.38-1934 1 accession number C.38-1934 74735 priref 74735 1934 1934 1934 The Fitzwilliam Museum Glaisher additions number Gl.Add.55-1934 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/74735 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/74735 on back inside footring painted in blue EW/Widdor January/ye 20 Day A yard / 1703 inscription reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum Purchased with the Glaisher Fund reference agent-161667 adlib-agent-161667 588716ef-7bdc-3131-944b-136ff7665c04 Puttick & Simpson 1934 1934 1934-11-20 bought the date given was the date of the sale at which purchased 1703 CE 1703 dated 1703 probably pottery reference agent-161437 adlib-agent-161437 dea10bf3-4dae-3014-8cda-908887663785 Brislington Pottery This style of the decoration of this huge dish was influenced by seventeenth-century Ligurian maiolica which was imported into England. The central motif was taken from the Old Testament, when Absalom, while fleeing on horseback caught his long hair in a tree, and was subsequently captured and killed. reference term-106655 adlib-term-106655 ee8a7821-8b3c-3059-913f-eca0d91befec 18th Century, Early reference term-15502 adlib-term-15502 c3de03e7-e283-3b8c-b584-b032b3ee7ece Queen Anne reference term-106700 adlib-term-106700 a1f742d5-f39a-3ac4-9905-3f2c8bdf3612 literal England England country probably Bristol reference term-106216 adlib-term-106216 825b8379-ec94-388e-9a59-624e40c090d0 literal England England country possibly London pale turquoise reference term-39575 adlib-term-39575 cdf6707a-1eeb-3622-a26b-6e54f1f8d4ab tin-glaze reddish-buff reference term-42861 adlib-term-42861 5b368285-f1a8-3dcf-a5b2-637fd3c3956c earthenware Diameter cm 56.5 reference media-170457 adlib-media-170457 454f73f0-845b-3b40-9454-5fefa5b0b39c jpeg aa/aa27/C_38_1934.jpg 1 height pixels 744 width pixels 760 1616251602687 1 image jpeg aa/aa27/mid_C_38_1934.jpg 1 height pixels 489 width pixels 500 1616251602687 1 image jpeg aa/aa27/C_38_1934.jpg 1 height pixels 744 width pixels 760 1616251602687 1 image jpeg aa/aa27/preview_C_38_1934.jpg 1 height pixels 245 width pixels 250 1616251602687 1 image 0 media image reference media-170455 adlib-media-170455 86ba2420-6869-34ab-b89b-5dae78bcb331 jpeg aa/aa27/C_38_1934_20_28BACK_29.jpg 1 height pixels 760 width pixels 760 1616264417578 1 image jpeg aa/aa27/mid_C_38_1934_20_28BACK_29.jpg 1 height pixels 500 width pixels 500 1616264417578 1 image jpeg aa/aa27/C_38_1934_20_28BACK_29.jpg 1 height pixels 760 width pixels 760 1616264417578 1 image jpeg aa/aa27/preview_C_38_1934_20_28BACK_29.jpg 1 height pixels 250 width pixels 250 1616264417578 1 image 1 media image reference media-170456 adlib-media-170456 bef8d909-a945-32c4-9b07-d6838bd18878 jpeg aa/aa27/C_38_1934_20_28DETAIL_29.jpg 1 height pixels 551 width pixels 760 1616275494210 1 image jpeg aa/aa27/mid_C_38_1934_20_28DETAIL_29.jpg 1 height pixels 363 width pixels 500 1616275494210 1 image jpeg aa/aa27/C_38_1934_20_28DETAIL_29.jpg 1 height pixels 551 width pixels 760 1616275494210 1 image jpeg aa/aa27/preview_C_38_1934_20_28DETAIL_29.jpg 1 height pixels 181 width pixels 250 1616275494210 1 image 2 media image reference term-90855 adlib-term-90855 b48207ec-774d-3e3e-8ab3-536996bc5dac dish object name reference term-110399 adlib-term-110399 c2c214aa-c7b2-3bbe-8460-214ed187b114 English delftware category history note Cecil Baring, 3rd Lord Revelstoke; sold Puttick & Simpson, 20-23 November 1934, Catalogue of an Important Collection of Old English Pottery, the property of the Rt Hon. Lord Revelstoke, third day, 22 November, p. 46, lot 554. 1 reference object-74962 adlib-object-74962 bc2ca048-b51a-3341-8997-6518edad5b68

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jug reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum reference publication-7174 adlib-publication-7174 c781a69c-28ed-38e1-a407-54f8ee3ca3da Catalogue of an Important Collection of Old English Pottery, the property of the Rt. Hon. Lord Revelstoke Publ. pp. 66-7, no. 235 66-7 reference publication-2350 adlib-publication-2350 5aab1afa-9420-3434-bf6d-916548bbc26b Dated English Delftware Publ. p. 515 16 lower right, the reverse; p. 519, pl. 26, the front 515 reference publication-200002229 adlib-publication-200002229 00b097ce-da29-3220-8c3d-2df2c79bb212 Delftware Chinoiserie at Brislington in the late Seventeenth and early Eighteenth Centuries Publ. p. 137, no. B.86 137 reference publication-7519 adlib-publication-7519 66216bb6-1f3a-3a73-a29c-2d840342ae63 Delftware in the Fitzwilliam Museum animal reference term-118890 adlib-term-118890 ea7c42bb-5706-36b1-b276-500b1ad2f9ed horse named event reference term-127107 adlib-term-127107 cdafde7e-0fe6-386c-ae59-eb89c10393f3 Death of Absalom literal horse horse literal Death of Absalom Death of Absalom

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dish reddish-buff earthenware with pale turquoise glaze, painted in cobalt-blue reference term-120059 adlib-term-120059 dfa315b5-819d-37ab-ab22-bddfdbb3cbe7 tin-glazing object OBJECT