IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 71831 accession number: C.1337-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Thursday 20 August 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue. Slightly bulbous cylindrical body, standing on a low foot; short cylindrical neck with an everted rim. Decorated on the front with a label inscribed 'CONF:ALKERM: S: M', with above a an angel's head with outstretched wings, and below, the initials and date 'R:W/1682' title: pharmacy jar NOTES ----- type: history note value: Sotheby's, 5 June 1905, part of lot 249; bought by 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/71831 TECHNIQUES ---------- earthenware, thrown, tin-glazed, and painted in cobalt-blue; the underside was wiped free of glaze before firing throwing TECHNIQUES ---------- tin-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: English delftware category: pharmaceutical ware DATING ------ creation date: 1682 - 1682 creation date earliest: 1682 creation date latest: 1682 culture: 17th Century, Late culture: Charles II CREATORS -------- maker: unidentified London pottery maker: Brislington Pottery DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 8.5 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Delftware in the Fitzwilliam Museum English Delftware Drug Jars. The Collection of the Museum of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain English Delftware Apothecary Jars and their Contents. The Victor Hoffbrand Collection --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1337_1928.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/mid_C_1337_1928.jpg height: 667 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1337_1928.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/preview_C_1337_1928.jpg height: 333 pixels width: 250 pixels