IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 71954 accession number: C.1418-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 25 February 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Buff earthenware, press-moulded, tin-glazed, and painted in blue, pale green, yellow, and orange. The salt is of rectangular form with a rectangular depression for the salt in the top, and four feet with foliage in slight relief on the corners above them. The two short sides are moulded in relief with oval shields and the two long sides with winged cupid's heads. The depression for the sale is painted in blue with a spray of foliage surrounded by scalloped edging, and the top edge has a border of blue dots and a broad blue line. The oval shields are painted with the Arms of the City of London, argent, a cross gules, in the first quarter a sword of the second, surrounded by a yellow and orange frame. The cherubs heads are painted in blue with yellow and orange wings. The feet and the foliage above them are pale green object type: tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue, pale green and shades of yellow with the arms of the City of London title: salt NOTES ----- type: history note value: Louis Gautier, Chelsea, by whom brought to Cambridge on approval on 21 September 1928; purchased for £25 on 21 October, 1928 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/71954 SUBJECTS ------------------- coat-of-arms coat-of-arms TECHNIQUES ---------- buff earthenware, press-moulded, tin-glazed off-white, and painted in blue, pale green, yellow and orange high-temperature (oxide) colours moulded TECHNIQUES ---------- tin-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: English delftware DATING ------ creation date: 1630 - 1640 creation date earliest: 1630 creation date latest: 1640 culture: 17th Century, second quarter# culture: Charles I CREATORS -------- maker: Pickleherring Pottery maker: Montague Close Pottery DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 10.5 dimension: Length units: cm value: 13 dimension: Width units: cm value: 9.8 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Delftware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Delftware. The Tin-glazed Earthenware of the British Isles. A Catalogue of the Collection in the Victoria and Albert Museum Important English Pottery, The Harriet Carlton Goldweitz Collection --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1418_1928_20_281_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 665 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/mid_C_1418_1928_20_281_29.jpg height: 571 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1418_1928_20_281_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 665 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/preview_C_1418_1928_20_281_29.jpg height: 286 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1418_1928_20_282_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 638 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/mid_C_1418_1928_20_282_29.jpg height: 596 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1418_1928_20_282_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 638 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/preview_C_1418_1928_20_282_29.jpg height: 298 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1418_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_1418_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_1418_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_1418_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_1418_1928_20_284_29.jpg height: 570 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/mid_C_1418_1928_20_284_29.jpg height: 375 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1418_1928_20_284_29.jpg height: 570 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/preview_C_1418_1928_20_284_29.jpg height: 188 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1418_1928_20_285_29.jpg height: 572 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/mid_C_1418_1928_20_285_29.jpg height: 376 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1418_1928_20_285_29.jpg height: 572 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/preview_C_1418_1928_20_285_29.jpg height: 188 pixels width: 250 pixels