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John the Baptist's Head brought to Salome and Herod
Production: Unknown
Earthenware, tin-glazed white on the upper surface and painted in blue. Within a circular medallion, framed by two concentric lines, 'John the Baptist's Head brought to Salomé and Herod'; ox-head corners. There is a hole in three of the corners.
History note: From Haddenham. Purchased in Cambridge fom Messrs. Jolley and Whittaker, 17th December, 1909
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Depth: 0.8 cm
Height: 12.9 cm
Width: 12.9 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.2810B-1928
Primary reference Number: 15705
Old object number: Gl. 3189
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2023) "John the Baptist's Head brought to Salome and Herod" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/15705 Accessed: 2023-05-31 01:46:00
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Accession Number: 255
Accession Number: T.2-1945
Accession Number: PD.22-1956
Accession Number: M.5-1949
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