IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 71858 accession number: C.1353-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Friday 2 August 2019 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Buff earthenware, thrown with applied handle and spout, tin-glazed and painted in blue. Of cylindrical form with rounded shoulders and lower part, contracting inwards to the slightly spreading base, and having a short neck with an everted rim. A short cylindrical spout with a bulge in the middle projects from the shoulder, and on the opposite side there is a loop handle with a longitudinal depression on the exterior, and upward tilting terminal. The front is decorated with a label inscribed 'O. SAMBUCIN' (Elderflower Oil) surrounded by scrolled strapwork, with above, a basket of fruit flanked by birds and leafy branches, and below a winged cupid's head, tassels and floral swags. object type: tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue and labelled O.SAMBUCIN (Elderflower Oil) title: spouted pharmacy jar NOTES ----- type: history note value: Mr Withers, 42 Silver Street, Leicester, from whom purchased about 1899 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/71858 PEOPLE ------------------- Withers, Mr cherub's head SUBJECTS ------------------- pharmaceutical products bird basket bird basket CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: English delftware category: pharmaceutical ware DATING ------ creation date: 1700 - 1750 creation date earliest: 1700 creation date latest: 1750 culture: 18th Century, first half# culture: Anne culture: George I culture: George II CREATORS -------- maker: unidentified London pottery maker: Unidentified Bristol pottery DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 17.5 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Delftware in the Fitzwilliam Museum The Collection of Anne H. & Frederick Vogel III, Important English Pottery, Volume one --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1353_1928_20_281_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/mid_C_1353_1928_20_281_29.jpg height: 667 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1353_1928_20_281_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/preview_C_1353_1928_20_281_29.jpg height: 333 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1353_1928_20_282_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/mid_C_1353_1928_20_282_29.jpg height: 667 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1353_1928_20_282_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/preview_C_1353_1928_20_282_29.jpg height: 333 pixels width: 250 pixels