IDENTIFIERS
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id:	71843
accession number:	C.1345 & A-1928

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Tuesday 25 February 2020

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Buff earthenware, thrown, with applied handles, spout, and finial, tin-glazed, and painted overglaze in blue. The pot has a bulbous body, a broad cylindrical neck, two strap handles with rolled terminals, and a sucking spout; the domed cover has a narrow flat rim, and a mushroom-shaped finial.The front  is painted with the inscription 'BEE MERRY' on either side of the spout, and on the back with 'AND WISE', with groups of five dots before and after the words. The front of the lid is inscribed 'I.S/1691'.\par
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object type: tin-glazed earthenware painted overglaze in blue at a later date
title:	posset pot

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Undisclosed vendor in Brighton; Mr Stoner, London from whom purchased on 9 November, 1908 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge2


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
collection:	J. W. L. Glaisher
creditline: Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/71843





TECHNIQUES
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tin-glazing

CATEGORIES
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category: tin-glazed earthenware
category: English delftware

DATING
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creation date:	1685 - 1700
creation date earliest:	1685
creation date latest:	1700
culture:	17th Century, Late
culture:	James II
culture:	William III and Mary II
culture:	William III (1750-1702)

CREATORS
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maker: unidentified London pottery
maker: Brislington Pottery
maker: Unidentified Bristol pottery

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 24.9



CITATIONS
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Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge
Dated English Delftware
Delftware in the Fitzwilliam Museum
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