IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 72179 accession number: C.1535-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 25 February 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Buff earthenware, moulded, tin-glazed except for the base, and painted in blue. Octagonal with straight sides, and flat top with a central short cylindrical neck to take a cover, now missing. The top and four sides are decorated with floral sprays on a white ground. Above and below on the sides there is a horizontal line. The canted corners are decorated wth a lotus bloom on a long stem reserved in a ground of tiny circles. object type: tin-glazed earthenwre painted in blue with floral sprays and lotus blooms title: tea caddy NOTES ----- type: history note value: Bought at a shop in Oxford Street, near Mr Fenton's for 7s.0d. in 1904 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/72179 SUBJECTS ------------------- lotus lotus TECHNIQUES ---------- buff earthenware, moulded, tin-glazed bluish-white on the visible surfaces, and painted in blue, and on the neck, probably pale yellow with blue over it, appearing bluish-green moulded CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: English delftware category: teaware DATING ------ creation date: 1760 - 1770 creation date earliest: 1760 creation date latest: 1770 CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified Bristol pottery DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 11.9 dimension: Length units: cm value: 10 dimension: Width units: cm value: 7.6 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: 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