IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 138467 accession number: C.2358.1-3-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 1 July 2025 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Buff earthenware, tin-glazed pale bluish-grey, and painted in blue, olive-green, manganese-purple and opaque white. The stand is in the form of two adjacent octagonal compartments with vertical sides and a cusped and wavy upper edge. A strap handle with a button thumb rest on the top is attached between the two on one side. Each bottle for oil and vinegar has a bulbous body standing on a low splayed foot, a narrow cylindrical neck with a lip at the front, and a loop handle with an upward scroll at the lower end (one has lost its handle). The domed covers have a narrow rim, and slightly conical knob. The stand is decorated on the exterior sides with a row of sprigs of three leaves, and above has a band of triangular wavy-edged compartments edged in blue, containing a spray of manganese flowers on leafy sprays, and outside the compartments, opaque white floral sprays. A narrow wavy blue line above follows the contours of the upper edge. The handle is painted in green with a spiral and horizontal stripes. The bottles are decorated to match, and on their covers have two small sprigs of leaves and a small spray of manganese flower buds. C.358.3A has a green flower on top and C.358.2A has a blue flower on top. object type: Cruet stand, comprising a stand and two bottles with lids (C.2358.1-1928, C.2358.2 & A-1928 and C.2358.3 & A-1928), tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue, olive-green, and manganese-purple, and opaque white with floral motifs in compartments with blue outlines. title: Cruet stand with two lidded bottles NOTES ----- type: history note value: Annevelt, Chapel Street, Westminster ( a Dutch shop which had then just opened), where purchased in 1902 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest, 1928 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/138467 SUBJECTS ------------------- dining CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: French faïence DATING ------ creation date: 1750 - 1770 creation date earliest: 1750 creation date latest: 1770 culture: 18th Century, third quarter CREATORS -------- maker: Fauquez factory CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Faïences françaises XVIe-XVIIIe siècles Faïences du nord de la France ---