IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 72129 accession number: C.1516-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 16 February 2021 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Buff earthenware, coated with bluish-white, shiny tin-glaze, and painted in blue. Circular with deep curved sides, and a wide flange with a depression for a soap ball, and a D-shaped area cut out. The inside is decorated with two concentric circles enclosing implements associated with barbers: a comb; locks of hair, a folding cut-throat razor, a shaving brush, a soap-ball and two lancets (?). Also cross-bones indicative of the barber's roll as a surgeon. The flange is decorated with two formal borders, perhaps stylized leaves. object type: tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue with barber's implements title: barber's basin NOTES ----- type: history note value: William Fuller Maitland collection, Stansted Hall, Stansted, Essex; Stansted Hall sale, September 1922; bought by Mr J. Wordingham, dealer, Hope House, Coram Road, Norwich, from whom purchased in Cambridge for £4 on 21 November 1922 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/72129 TECHNIQUES ---------- buff earthenware, probably thrown or thrown over mould, coated in bluish-white, very shiny tin-glaze, and painted in blue tin-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: English delftware DATING ------ creation date: 1760 - 1765 creation date earliest: 1760 creation date latest: 1765 culture: 18th Century, third quarter# culture: George III CREATORS -------- maker: Temple Back Pottery DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 26.3 dimension: Height units: cm value: 7.2 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Delftware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Distinguished American Funiture and Folk Art, the Collection of Susan and Mark Laracy English pottery; English porcelain Pottery Kiln Waste from Temple Back, Bristol --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1516_1928.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 584 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/mid_C_1516_1928.jpg height: 651 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1516_1928.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 584 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/preview_C_1516_1928.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa10/C_1516_1928_281_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa10/mid_C_1516_1928_281_29.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa10/C_1516_1928_281_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa10/preview_C_1516_1928_281_29.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels