IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 72800 accession number: C.1879-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 30 September 2025 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Dark buff earthenware, with moulded and hand modelled reliefs applied to the flat back, decorated in cream, tan and brown slips, under clear lead-glaze. There are also some details in dark green glaze. The The back of the stoup is rectangular with cut corners and a shallow V-shaped cut at the top. At the bottom it has a projecting semi-circular container for the holy water in the form of a bearded head of Christ crowned with thorns. A half figure of a naked man with manacles and chains on his wrists, emerges from flames above it. Over him, is a Crucifix flanked by two holes edged with green, and on each side, a barley-sugar column topped by a cherub holding a chalice to catch the blood from the wounds of Christ. Over the Crucifix there is a cream circle surrounded by green spots. The reverse of the back plate is undecorated but has dribbles of glaze round the edge and one wide dribble diagonally across it at the top. object type: earthenware holy water stoup with moulded and hand-modelled decoration in relief, coated and painted in coloured slips and lead-glazed title: holy water stoup NOTES ----- type: history note value: Unknown before 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/72800 PEOPLE ------------------- Christ SUBJECTS ------------------- Crucifixion cherub column Crucifixion cherub column CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware DATING ------ culture: 18th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Depth units: cm value: 6.5 dimension: Width units: cm value: 11 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/aa2/C_1879_1928.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/mid_C_1879_1928.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_1879_1928.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/preview_C_1879_1928.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels