IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 72194 accession number: C.1544-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 25 March 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Buff earthenware, probably slab-built, pierced, tin-glazed bluish-white and painted in blue. The flower brick is rectangular with its top and base recessed and chamfered. The top is pierced by twenty small circular holes to take the flower stems. One long side is decorated with a dog and a seated and a standing figure in a landscape with a large tree on the right and distant buildings on the left. The other side has a lady and gentleman standing beside a broken column, and a rabbit in a landscap with a large tree on the right and distant buildings on the left. Both landscapes continue on the short ends. The holes in the top are encircled by petal-like strokes. object type: tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue, with a continuous landscape with two men and a dog on one side and a lady and gentleman and a dog on the other. the top is pierced by twenty-one holes title: flower brick NOTES ----- type: history note value: Gog Magog House, Cambridgeshire; Duke of Leeds; sold Christie's, 4 May 1894, Porcelain, part of lot 29; 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/72194 SUBJECTS ------------------- tree tree TECHNIQUES ---------- buff earthenware, probably slab-built, pierced, tin-glazed bluish-white, and painted in blue slab-building TECHNIQUES ---------- tin-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: English delftware DATING ------ creation date: 1745 - 1765 creation date earliest: 1745 creation date latest: 1765 culture: 18th Century, Mid culture: George II culture: George III CREATORS -------- maker: unidentified London pottery DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Depth units: cm value: 8.1 dimension: Height units: cm value: 9.6 dimension: Width units: cm value: 16.0 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Curious Variations on Ceramic Themes, Geometrical and Zoomorphic Forms CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1544_1928_20_281_29.jpg height: 570 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/mid_C_1544_1928_20_281_29.jpg height: 375 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1544_1928_20_281_29.jpg height: 570 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/preview_C_1544_1928_20_281_29.jpg height: 188 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1544_1928_20_282_29.jpg height: 570 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/mid_C_1544_1928_20_282_29.jpg height: 375 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1544_1928_20_282_29.jpg height: 570 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/preview_C_1544_1928_20_282_29.jpg height: 188 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1544_1928_20_283_29.jpg height: 570 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/mid_C_1544_1928_20_283_29.jpg height: 375 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1544_1928_20_283_29.jpg height: 570 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/preview_C_1544_1928_20_283_29.jpg height: 188 pixels width: 250 pixels