Coffee pot: C.3165 & A-1928

Current Location: Gallery 26 (Lower Marlay)

Maker(s)

Factory: Unknown

Entities

Categories

Hard-paste porcelain

Description

Hard-paste porcelain decorated with applied prunus-blossom in imitation of blanc-de-chine.; pewter cover with a medallion of peasants drinking and inscription ‘NACH HAVS MIT DIR WAS SAVFTS ALHIER’. Mark: crossed swords underglaze in blue. German, Meissen, c. 1750

Notes

History note: Purchased in Dresden, 1896 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge

Legal notes

Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest

Place(s) associated

Meissen ⪼ Saxony ⪼ Germany

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr

Dating

Production date: circa AD 1750

References and bibliographic entries

Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge page(s): vol. 1, p. 406
James Whitbread Lee Glaisher, ScD, FRS (1848-1928), A Cambridge Mathematician and Collector page(s): 176

Related exhibitions

On White: Porcelain Stories from the Fitzwilliam Museum

Identification numbers

Accession number: C.3165 & A-1928
Primary reference Number: 140230
Old object number: 4356
Old object number: 1591
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Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Sunday 18 June 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts

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