IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 72380 accession number: C.1646 & A-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 25 February 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Buff earthenware tin-glazed very pale turquoise-blue, and painted in blue and turquoise-green. The bulbous pot stands on three feet in the shape of birds. It has two handles made of three joined rolls of clay with applied pellets on the backs and volutes with twisting terminals at the junctions with the body. The spout is decorated with pellets and has twisting terminals at both ends. The domed cover has two handles like those on the body which are joined at the top to a large acorn-shaped knob with a small acorn-shaped finial (restored). On the back of all four handles there is a turquoise-green snake. The sides and cover are decorated with Chinese figures standing or sitting in Oriental landscapes. object type: tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue with Chinese figures in a landscape, and with turquoise-green on the handles title: posset pot NOTES ----- type: history note value: Mr Button, Lower Grosvenor Street, London from whom purchased for £10.10s.0d. on 18 November 1907 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/72380 SUBJECTS ------------------- Chinaman Chinaman TECHNIQUES ---------- tin-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: English delftware DATING ------ creation date: 1675 - 1700 creation date earliest: 1675 creation date latest: 1700 culture: 17th Century, Late# culture: Charles II culture: James II culture: William III and Mary II culture: William III (1750-1702) CREATORS -------- maker: Brislington Pottery DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 30 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge 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_1646_20_26_20A_1928_20_281_29.jpg height: 590 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/mid_C_1646_20_26_20A_1928_20_281_29.jpg height: 388 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1646_20_26_20A_1928_20_281_29.jpg height: 590 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/preview_C_1646_20_26_20A_1928_20_281_29.jpg height: 194 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1646_20_26_20A_1928_20_282_29.jpg height: 588 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/mid_C_1646_20_26_20A_1928_20_282_29.jpg height: 387 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1646_20_26_20A_1928_20_282_29.jpg height: 588 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/preview_C_1646_20_26_20A_1928_20_282_29.jpg height: 193 pixels width: 249 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1646_20_26_20A_1928_20_283_29.jpg height: 586 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/mid_C_1646_20_26_20A_1928_20_283_29.jpg height: 386 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1646_20_26_20A_1928_20_283_29.jpg height: 586 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/preview_C_1646_20_26_20A_1928_20_283_29.jpg height: 193 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1646_20_26_20A_1928_20_284_29.jpg height: 734 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/mid_C_1646_20_26_20A_1928_20_284_29.jpg height: 483 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1646_20_26_20A_1928_20_284_29.jpg height: 734 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/preview_C_1646_20_26_20A_1928_20_284_29.jpg height: 241 pixels width: 250 pixels