IDENTIFIERS
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id:	72534
accession number:	C.1726-1928

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Monday 30 September 2019

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Buff earthenware, press-moulded in relief, tin-glazed, and painted in green, yellow, red, brown and black. In the shape of a curving cornucopia with a flat back pierced by two suspension holes. The front is decorated with a bird standing on the narrow branch of a flowering tree. Above it there is a petalled yellow flower or shell.
title:	wall pocket

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Lovett Collection; sold Puttick & Simpson, London, 6 March 1903, part of lot 224 with a pair; 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/72534


SUBJECTS
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bird
bird



TECHNIQUES
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buff earthenware, press-moulded in relief, tin-glazed, and painted in green, yellow, red, brown, and black high-temperature (oxide) colours; two suspension holes pierced in the back before firing
press-moulding
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:	1755 - 1760
creation date earliest:	1755
creation date latest:	1760
culture:	18th Century, third quarter#
culture:	George II

CREATORS
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maker: Unidentified Liverpool pottery

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 20.2

dimension: Height
units: in
value: 7 15/16

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 13.6

dimension: Width
units: in
value: 5 3/8



CITATIONS
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Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge
Delftware in the Fitzwilliam Museum
Delftware. The Tin-glazed Earthenware of the British Isles. A Catalogue of the Collection in the Victoria and Albert Museum
A Collection of English Pottery and Delftware
The Jean and Kenneth Chorley Collection
An Exhibition of English Pottery
The Autumn Country House Sale
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