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Production: Unknown
Earthenware, tin-glazed white on the upper surface and painted in manganese, blue, green and yellow. Within a circular medallion, framed by two concentric lines, a shepherd sitting on a bank beneath a tree, playing a pipe to his sheep which are listening attentively; debased ox-head corners. There is a hole in the lower right corner.
History note: Purchased from the Antiquarian Guild Limited, Carlton Street, London, S.W.1 on 2nd July, 1924 (Capt. A.L. Asheton).
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Depth: 0.7 cm
Height: 13.5 cm
Width: 13.1 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
Late 18th century
Circa
1760
CE
-
1800
CE
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( manganese, blue, green and yellow)
Front
composed of
tin-glaze
Accession number: C.2842C-1928
Primary reference Number: 15826
Old object number: Gl. 4383C
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) "Tile" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/15826 Accessed: 2022-11-29 17:44:54
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|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2022-11-29 17:44:54|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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Accession Number: C.2823.19-1928
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Accession Number: C.2823.17-1928
Accession Number: C.2823.11-1928
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