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Joseph and Potiphar's Wife
unidentified London pottery
(Pottery)
Buff earthenware, tin-glazed greyish-white on the upper surface and painted in manganese. Within a circular medallion, framed by two concentric lines, 'Joseph and Potiphar's Wife'; barred ox-head corners. There is a hole in the top left and lower right corner.
History note: From a fireplace surround in the upper room at Sennitts’, the Butcher’s, 17 Peas Hill, Cambridge' bought by Stanley Woolston, Cambridge and sold on 26 August 1924 to Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 12.4 cm
Width: 12.5 cm
Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed
(1928-12-07)
by
Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
Mid 18th Century
George II
Circa
1730
CE
-
1760
CE
The event depicted is described in the Bible, Genesis 39: 12
Front composed of tin-glaze ( greyish-white) Decoration composed of high-temperature colour ( manganese)
Accession number: C.2823.15-1928
Primary reference Number: 15483
Old object number: 4479a
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Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2022)
"Joseph and Potiphar's Wife"
Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/15483 Accessed: 2022-05-29 10:50:25
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Accession Number: 1876.12.16-10
Accession Number: 1178 (b)
Accession Number: PD.53-1993
Accession Number: 31.K.12-65
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