IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 71742 accession number: C.1294 & A-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 21 August 2018 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Buff earthenware, the body thrown, tin-glazed and painted in blue. Bucket-shaped body with slightly spreading foot, slightly concave underneath, applied tubular spout and two strap handles each with two vertical grooves on the exterior and pinched lower terminal. The almost flat cover has a finial in the form of a bulbous vase with a stopper. The sides are decorated with 'birds-on-rocks' pattern with at the back a trellis border above and below, and at the front below. Above at the front is the inscription 'STEPHEN GARDNER 1631' between groups of three narrow horizontal bands. The spout and outside of the handles are blue, and there is a blue band round the edge of the foot. The cover is decorated to match. title: posset pot NOTES ----- type: history note value: Christie's London, 12 December 1918, lot 27, the property of a gentleman; bought for 68 guineas by Mr Stoner on behalf of Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge who paid him £92. 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/71742 SUBJECTS ------------------- bird bird TECHNIQUES ---------- tin-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: English delftware DATING ------ creation date: 1631 - 1631 creation date earliest: 1631 creation date latest: 1631 culture: 17th Century, second quarter# culture: Charles I CREATORS -------- maker: Pickleherring Pottery maker: Rotherhithe Pottery DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 20.9 dimension: Height units: in value: 8¼ CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Southwark (alias Lambeth) Delftware and the Potter Christian Wilhelm, Part I English Delftware Dated English Delftware A group of dated Southwark delftware Delftware in the Fitzwilliam Museum The Longridge Collection of English Slipware and Delftware, Volume 2, Delftware --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1294_20_26_20A_1928_20_281_29.jpg height: 570 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/mid_C_1294_20_26_20A_1928_20_281_29.jpg height: 375 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1294_20_26_20A_1928_20_281_29.jpg height: 570 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/preview_C_1294_20_26_20A_1928_20_281_29.jpg height: 188 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1294_20_26_20A_1928_20_282_29.jpg height: 570 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/mid_C_1294_20_26_20A_1928_20_282_29.jpg height: 375 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1294_20_26_20A_1928_20_282_29.jpg height: 570 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/preview_C_1294_20_26_20A_1928_20_282_29.jpg height: 188 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1294_20_26_20A_1928_20_283_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 745 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/mid_C_1294_20_26_20A_1928_20_283_29.jpg height: 510 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1294_20_26_20A_1928_20_283_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 745 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/preview_C_1294_20_26_20A_1928_20_283_29.jpg height: 255 pixels width: 250 pixels