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Giving Drink to the Thirsty
Unknown
(Production)
Earthenware, tin-glazed white on the upper surface and painted in blue. In a square, framed by a scrolled border, 'Giving Drink to the Thirsty', inscribed below 'Math 25:35'. There is a hole near to the top left corner and in the lower right corner.
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Depth: 0.8 cm
Height: 12.3 cm
Width: 12.6 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)
by
Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th century
Circa
1700
CE
-
1800
CE
Decoration composed of high-temperature colours ( blue) Front composed of tin-glaze
Accession number: C.2804.46-1928
Primary reference Number: 15686
Stable URI
Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2022)
"Giving Drink to the Thirsty"
Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/15686 Accessed: 2022-08-13 20:13:39
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University of Cambridge}}
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Accession Number: PD.214-1948
Accession Number: PD.92-1974
Accession Number: 406
Accession Number: 30.I.3-21
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