IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 72180 accession number: C.1536-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 30 April 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Buff earthenware, tin-glazed bluish-white on the visible surfaces, and painted in blue. Octagonal with two long sides, two short sides, protruding canted corners. The flat top has a central low cylindrical neck to take a cover, now missing. The top is decorated with four winged cupid's heads, and the two ends have standing Chinese figures. One side and its flanking corners is decorated wtih a Chinese pavilion, a rhubarb plant, and the inscription 'Rhubarb' above and to the left. The other side and its corners has a different Chinese pavilion and a tea shrub with 'The Tea/Shrub' inscribed under it. object type: tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue title: tea caddy NOTES ----- type: history note value: Sotheby's on 21 February 1905, lot 133; sold for £3.16s.0d. to Mr Hyam (of Hyam & Co. ?); bought from Hyam for £6.6s by Dr Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge. Lent to the Fitzwilliam Museum in November 1909 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/72180 CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: English delftware DATING ------ creation date: 1760 - 1770 creation date earliest: 1760 creation date latest: 1770 culture: 18th Century, third quarter culture: George III CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified Bristol pottery DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 9 dimension: Length units: cm value: 9.4 dimension: Width units: cm value: 6.2 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Delftware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Locating Rhubarb, Early modernity's relevant obscurity English Tin-Glaze Tea Canisters --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1536_1928_20_281_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: 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