IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 72130 accession number: C.1517-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 16 February 2021 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Buff earthenware, thrown, tin-glazed and painted in blue and dark brownish-orange. Circular, with deep curved sides, standing on a high footring. In the middle there is a circular medallion with a scrolled border enclosing a drinking scene showing three men seated at a table on which is a punch bowl. The man in the centre holds up a goblet. The other two are smoking church-warden pipes, and the one on the right is stirring the punchbowl. Behind the table there is a window, flanked by two tricorne hats hanging on the wall. Below the rim there is a border of ships, a whale and an island on a narrow strip of sea. The exterior is decorated on one side with the Tower of London with the name EDWARD LESTER above. On the other side there is a squad of six men carrying muskets over their shoulders, perhaps militia, commanded by an officer, and a large trophy of arms comprising a canon, flags, pikes, and a drum. On either side there is a standing soldier wearing a tall mitre cap of a Fusilier or Grenadier demonstrating two drill positions associated with fixing bayonets. The rim is painted dark brownish-orange. The underside is dated '1734'. object type: tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue with a dark brownish-orange rim title: punch bowl NOTES ----- type: history note value: Cecil Davis, 8 St Mary Abbot's Terrace, Kensington Road, London, from whom purchased for £20 on 13 June 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/72130 PEOPLE ------------------- Leicester, Edward SUBJECTS ------------------- Tower of London soldier pipe goblet punch bowl drinking Tower of London soldier pipe goblet punch bowl drinking TECHNIQUES ---------- buff earthenware, thrown, tin-glazed and painted in blue, and on the rim in dark brownish-orange throwing TECHNIQUES ---------- tin-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: English delftware DATING ------ creation date: 1734 - 1734 creation date earliest: 1734 creation date latest: 1734 culture: 18th Century, second quarter# culture: George II CREATORS -------- maker: unidentified London pottery DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 25.7 dimension: Height units: cm value: 11.5 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge A Collector's History of English Pottery Dated English Delftware Delftware in the Fitzwilliam Museum West and East: Two English Delfware Bowls and Two Chinese Versions English Delftware Pottery in the Robert Hall Warren Collection, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1517_1928_20_281_29.jpg height: 607 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/mid_C_1517_1928_20_281_29.jpg height: 399 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1517_1928_20_281_29.jpg height: 607 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/preview_C_1517_1928_20_281_29.jpg height: 200 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1517_1928_20_282_29.jpg height: 606 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/mid_C_1517_1928_20_282_29.jpg height: 399 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1517_1928_20_282_29.jpg height: 606 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/preview_C_1517_1928_20_282_29.jpg height: 199 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1517_1928_20_283_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 632 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/mid_C_1517_1928_20_283_29.jpg height: 601 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1517_1928_20_283_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 632 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/preview_C_1517_1928_20_283_29.jpg height: 301 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1517_1928_20_284_29.jpg height: 741 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/mid_C_1517_1928_20_284_29.jpg height: 488 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1517_1928_20_284_29.jpg height: 741 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/preview_C_1517_1928_20_284_29.jpg height: 244 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1517_1928_20_285_29.jpg height: 756 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/mid_C_1517_1928_20_285_29.jpg height: 497 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1517_1928_20_285_29.jpg height: 756 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/preview_C_1517_1928_20_285_29.jpg height: 249 pixels width: 250 pixels