IDENTIFIERS
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id:	72167
accession number:	C.1527-1928

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Wednesday 15 July 2020

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Buff earthenware, tin-glazed greyish-white and painted and sponged in blue. Circular with a sloping, slightly concave rim, shallow well,  and recessed base. The front is decorated with a standing figure, probably Mezzetin from the Italian Comedy, playing a lute, in a landscape with sponged trees and shrubs on either side, and five birds flying overhead. Round the edge there is a narrow blue line.
object type: tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue with a standing figure of Mezzetin in a landscape
title:	dish

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Sotheby's, 13 June 1906, part of lot 285; bought for £2.2s. by S.G. Fenton on behalf of Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
collection:	J. W. L. Glaisher
creditline: Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Request

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/72167

PEOPLE
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Mezzetin

SUBJECTS
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lute
lute



TECHNIQUES
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buff earthenware, moulded, tin-glazed greyish-white, and painted and sponged in blue high-temperature colour; the glaze on the  reverse appears grey,with many pinholes, and has one peg mark near the rim
moulding
TECHNIQUES
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tin-glazing

CATEGORIES
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category: tin-glazed earthenware
category: English delftware

DATING
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creation date:	1725 - 1735
creation date earliest:	1725
creation date latest:	1735
culture:	18th Century, second quarter#
culture:	George I
culture:	George II

CREATORS
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maker: Unidentified Lambeth Pottery

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Diameter
units: cm
value: 34

dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 4.2



CITATIONS
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Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge
Delftware in the Fitzwilliam Museum
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