IDENTIFIERS
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id:	72186
accession number:	C.1540-1928

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Tuesday 25 February 2020

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Buff earthenware, thrown, pierced, tin-glazed bluish-white and painted in blue. Cylindrical with curved shoulders, a short neck with everted rim, and concave underside  The sides are pierced by six arched openings. The sides are decorated between each opening with a bird standing on a flowering plant with insects flying above. Round the neck there is a border of alternating panels of cracked ice pattern and oriental scrolls.
object type: tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue with floral sprays
title:	night light holder

NOTES
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type: history note
value: William Fuller Maitland, Stansted Hall, Stansted Essex; family left in 1921; sale held September 1922; Mr J.J. Wordingham, dealer, Hope House, Coram Rd, Norwich  who sold it on 21 November 1922 for £1.10s.0d. to 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 Bequest

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/72186


SUBJECTS
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bird
bird



TECHNIQUES
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buff earthenware, thrown, pierced, tin-glazed bluish-white and painted in blue
throwing
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:	1745 - 1755
creation date earliest:	1745
creation date latest:	1755
culture:	18th Century, Mid
culture:	George II

CREATORS
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maker: Unidentified Liverpool pottery

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 12.5



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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