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Production: Unknown
Earthenware, tin-glazed white on the upper surface and painted in blue. Two men standing on the shore watching two men in a boat drawing alongside the quay; in the foreground, two swans. There is a hole in the top right and left corners and in the lower left corner.
History note: No information
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Depth: 0.7 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.2818-1928
Primary reference Number: 15727
Old object number: Gl. 507
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 (2023) "Tile" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/15727 Accessed: 2023-05-29 15:21:00
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University of Cambridge}}
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Accession Number: C.2823.11-1928
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