IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 15836 accession number: C.2847-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 24 November 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Tile picture composed of twenty tiles. Earthenware, tin-glazed white on the upper surface and painted in blue, yellow, yellowish-green and manganese with the interior of a buckwheat-mill. On the right, a horse turning a large mill-wheel; in the middle, a man with a pipe in his mouth, tying up sacks of flour, to the left of him a man seated on a chair beside a tub, another man with a sack on his shoulders climbing a ladder to a loft, a woman entering a door in the background. The sacks are lettered 'S.V. LEYDEN'. Below, the date 1780, with an inscription between the 7 and 8: Boekweyt draagen, droogen, breeken/al wat Agter word gedaan,/word hier duydelik vergeleeken/toond het Grutters Ambagt aan./ziften, wayen, maalen, buylen,/Zakkenbinden, weg-gehaald/om er Zilver voor te ruylen,/dus word Waar en Vlyt betaald'. ('The carrying, drying and crushing of buckwheat and all that is done afterwards is here clearly represented, the groats trade shown. Sifting, weighing, grinding, bolting, binding sacks, carried away to be bartered for silver, thus are goods and industry paid for'). Both picture and verses are signed 'G. v. L.'. In ebonized wood frame. title: tile picture NOTES ----- type: history note value: unknown before Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: J. W. L. Glaisher creditline: Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/15836 PEOPLE ------------------- millers SUBJECTS ------------------- sacks chair horse (animal) interior mill sacks chair horse (animal) interior mill CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware DATING ------ creation date: 1780 - 1780 creation date earliest: 1780 creation date latest: 1780 culture: 18th Century, Late CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 50.8 dimension: Width units: cm value: 63.5 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Feast and Fast: The Art of Food in Europe (1500-1800) CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Feast & Fast. The Art of Food in Europe 1500-1800 De Rotterdamsche plateel - en tegelbakkers --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa6/C_2847_1928.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa6/mid_C_2847_1928.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa6/C_2847_1928.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa6/preview_C_2847_1928.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels