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Unknown
(Production)
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
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 (2020) "Tile"
Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/15727 Accessed: 2022-01-24 12:48:00
To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
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