IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 71902 accession number: C.1386-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Wednesday 10 February 2021 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Buff earthenware, moulded, tin-glazed dark blue, and painted in white. Oval with convex sides, and a wide out-turned rim, supported on three hollow bun feet, each pierced by a hole . At each end there is a moulded lion’s mask holding an upturned ring in its mouth. The inside is painted with a Chinese figure seated in a landscape and with alternating wavy lines and small circles round the rim. The exterior is decorated on each side with a Chinese figure seated in a landscape and with a lower border of alternating small circles and wavy lines, and above a band of groups of grasses. object type: earthenware, moulded, tin-glazed dark blue, and painted in white title: cistern NOTES ----- type: history note value: Purchased in London about 1897 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/71902 SUBJECTS ------------------- Chinaman Chinaman TECHNIQUES ---------- buff earthenware, moulded, with applied handles and feet, tin-glazed dark blue, and painted in white. moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- tin-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: English delftware category: bleu de Nevers category: bleu Persan DATING ------ creation date: 1680 - 1695 creation date earliest: 1680 creation date latest: 1695 culture: 17th Century, Late culture: Charles II culture: James II culture: William III and Mary II CREATORS -------- maker: Norfolk House DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 14 dimension: Length units: cm value: 25.5 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Fitzwilliam Museum Handbooks, English Pottery Delftware in the Fitzwilliam Museum The Lipski Collection of English and Irish Delftware Part I English Delftware from the John Philip Kassebaum Collection --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1386_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_1386_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_1386_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_1386_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_1386_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_1386_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_1386_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_1386_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_1386_1928_20_283_29.jpg height: 570 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/mid_C_1386_1928_20_283_29.jpg height: 375 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1386_1928_20_283_29.jpg height: 570 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/preview_C_1386_1928_20_283_29.jpg height: 188 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1386_1928_20_284_29.jpg height: 600 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/mid_C_1386_1928_20_284_29.jpg height: 395 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1386_1928_20_284_29.jpg height: 600 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/preview_C_1386_1928_20_284_29.jpg height: 197 pixels width: 250 pixels