IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 72372 accession number: C.1641 & A-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 8 February 2022 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Buff earthenware, tin-glazed pale turquoise and painted in blue and turquoise-green. The bulbous body stands on three feet in the form of birds. It has a curved spout in the middle of one side, and two handles formed of two joined rolls of clay with twisting terminals and snakes on their backs. The slightly domed cover has a knob in the shape of a crown enclosing a bird (head missing) and two looped handles. The sides and cover are painted with Chinese figures seated in Chinoiserie landscapes (man-in-grasses design). To the right of the spout is the inscription ‘EH/1681’. object type: tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue with Chinese figures in a landscape title: posset pot NOTES ----- type: history note value: W.L. Chew Esq., Hankelow Court, Audlem, Cheshire; sold Christie’s 15-16 June 1910, Old English Pottery and Porcelain formed by W L Chew, Esq. Deceased late of Hankelow Court Audlem Cheshire; 2nd day, lot 148; bought by S.G. Fenton for £5.5; and sold by him for £9 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/72372 TECHNIQUES ---------- tin-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: English delftware DATING ------ creation date: 1681 - 1681 creation date earliest: 1681 creation date latest: 1681 culture: 17th Century, Late CREATORS -------- maker: Brislington Pottery DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 16.2 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Dated English Delftware Delftware Chinoiserie at Brislington in the late Seventeenth and early Eighteenth Centuries Delftware in the Fitzwilliam Museum --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1641_20_26_20A_1928_20_281_29.jpg height: 507 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/mid_C_1641_20_26_20A_1928_20_281_29.jpg height: 334 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1641_20_26_20A_1928_20_281_29.jpg height: 507 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/preview_C_1641_20_26_20A_1928_20_281_29.jpg height: 167 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1641_20_26_20A_1928_20_282_29.jpg height: 507 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/mid_C_1641_20_26_20A_1928_20_282_29.jpg height: 334 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1641_20_26_20A_1928_20_282_29.jpg height: 507 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/preview_C_1641_20_26_20A_1928_20_282_29.jpg height: 167 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1641_20_26_20A_1928_20_283_29.jpg height: 507 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/mid_C_1641_20_26_20A_1928_20_283_29.jpg height: 334 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1641_20_26_20A_1928_20_283_29.jpg height: 507 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/preview_C_1641_20_26_20A_1928_20_283_29.jpg height: 167 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1641_20_26_20A_1928_20_284_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/mid_C_1641_20_26_20A_1928_20_284_29.jpg height: 500 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1641_20_26_20A_1928_20_284_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/preview_C_1641_20_26_20A_1928_20_284_29.jpg height: 250 pixels width: 250 pixels