IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 72123 accession number: C.1512 & A-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 25 February 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Buff earthenware, tin-glazed, and painted in blue. The pot has a bulbous body with a wide mouth resting on a slightly domed circular foot. It has two applied scroll handles of oval section with a thumb rest at the top, and on one side a curved tubular spout with an applied snake on the front. The domed cover has a circular vertical projection decorated with applied fleur-de-lys, and crosses, which were originally linked to straps to form a crown, and are now broken off. This surrounds a cup-shaped container which probably had a cover. The back is decorated with a vase of flowers flanked by birds, and the front has birds on either side of the spout. The upper part and the cover are decorated with borders of lapopets, scrolls and flowers. At the base of the spout is the inscription 'WV/1720'. object type: tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue with a vase of flowers, birds, and inscribed 'WV/1720' title: posset pot NOTES ----- type: history note value: Purchased from H. Van Stochem, at Rosen's shop in King St, St James's on 14 November 1917 for £20 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/72123 SUBJECTS ------------------- bird bird TECHNIQUES ---------- tin-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: English delftware DATING ------ creation date: 1703 - 1703 creation date earliest: 1703 creation date latest: 1703 culture: 18th Century, Early# culture: Queen Anne CREATORS -------- maker: unidentified London pottery DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 28.6 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Delftware in the Fitzwilliam Museum --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1512_20_26_20A_1928_20_281_29.jpg height: 595 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/mid_C_1512_20_26_20A_1928_20_281_29.jpg height: 391 pixels width: 499 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1512_20_26_20A_1928_20_281_29.jpg height: 595 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/preview_C_1512_20_26_20A_1928_20_281_29.jpg height: 196 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1512_20_26_20A_1928_20_282_29.jpg height: 597 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/mid_C_1512_20_26_20A_1928_20_282_29.jpg height: 393 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1512_20_26_20A_1928_20_282_29.jpg height: 597 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/preview_C_1512_20_26_20A_1928_20_282_29.jpg height: 196 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1512_20_26_20A_1928_20_283_29.jpg height: 594 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/mid_C_1512_20_26_20A_1928_20_283_29.jpg height: 391 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1512_20_26_20A_1928_20_283_29.jpg height: 594 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/preview_C_1512_20_26_20A_1928_20_283_29.jpg height: 195 pixels width: 249 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1512_20_26_20A_1928_20_284_29.jpg height: 720 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/mid_C_1512_20_26_20A_1928_20_284_29.jpg height: 474 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1512_20_26_20A_1928_20_284_29.jpg height: 720 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/preview_C_1512_20_26_20A_1928_20_284_29.jpg height: 237 pixels width: 250 pixels