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The Fall
Production: Unknown (Probably)
Earthenware, tin-glazed white on the upper surface and painted in manganese. Within an octagonal frame, 'The Fall'; with a lion, a peacock, a horse and a cat in the background; in each corner either a columbine flower or two swans facing each other. There is a hole in the top left and in the lower right corner.
History note: Purchased at The Hague, 1893 (?)
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Depth: 0.7 cm
Height: 13.0 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
Mid 18th Century
Circa
1730
CE
-
1760
CE
Dutch, probably Rotterdam
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( manganese)
Front
composed of
tin-glaze
Accession number: C.2822A-1928
Primary reference Number: 15738
Old object number: Gl. 556
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) "The Fall" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/15738 Accessed: 2023-06-02 16:38:01
To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
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|title=The Fall
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2023-06-02 16:38:01|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/api/v1/objects/object-15738
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Accession Number: PD.227-1961
Accession Number: 3237
Accession Number: P.9913-R
Accession Number: 3400
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