IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 72810 accession number: C.1887 & A-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 30 September 2025 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: earthenware, thrown, with applied modelled decoration in relief, coated with cream slip on the interior of the bowl and underside of the cover and finial, and with brown on the exterior of the bowl and cover, and painted in white, green, and yellow under lead-glaze. The bulbous bowl stands on three small feet with reliefs of foliage above them, and between them, applied twisted volutes. The cover is slightly domed with a wide border, and has on top a handle in the form of six volutes radiating from a shallow dish in which is perched a bird. The areas of brown ground are scattered with small flower heads painted in cream and yellow, and the volutes on the cover are alternately green and yellow. object type: three-legged slipware bowl and cover with six scrolls and a bird on top, decorated with cream and brown slip, and green and yellow under lead glaze title: sugar bowl NOTES ----- type: history note value: Mrs Born-Straub, wife of Samuel Born-Straub (1845-1914) antique dealer in Thun, from whom bought in September 1903 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/72810 PEOPLE ------------------- Samuel Born-Straub (1845-1914) TECHNIQUES ---------- throwing CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware category: Swiss slipware DATING ------ creation date: 1790 - 1810 creation date earliest: 1790 creation date latest: 1810 culture: 18th Century, Late CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified Langnau potter DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 16 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Mary Wondrausch on Slipware Keramik aus Langnau. Zur Geschichte der bedeutendsten Landhafnerei im Kanton Bern Kommentierter Katalog, 2 vols Ceramica CH, Inventaire National de la Céramique dans les Collections Publiques Suisses (1500-1950), Neuchâtel, I --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/C_1887_20_26_20a_1928_1_201604_amt49_ce.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 788 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/mid_C_1887_20_26_20a_1928_1_201604_amt49_ce.jpg height: 650 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/C_1887_20_26_20a_1928_1_201604_amt49_ce.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 788 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/preview_C_1887_20_26_20a_1928_1_201604_amt49_ce.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/C_1887_20_26_20a_1928_2_201604_amt49_ce.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 802 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/mid_C_1887_20_26_20a_1928_2_201604_amt49_ce.jpg height: 638 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/C_1887_20_26_20a_1928_2_201604_amt49_ce.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 802 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/preview_C_1887_20_26_20a_1928_2_201604_amt49_ce.jpg height: 319 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/C_1887_20_26_20a_1928_3_201604_amt49_ce.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 982 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/mid_C_1887_20_26_20a_1928_3_201604_amt49_ce.jpg height: 521 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/C_1887_20_26_20a_1928_3_201604_amt49_ce.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 982 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/preview_C_1887_20_26_20a_1928_3_201604_amt49_ce.jpg height: 261 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/C_1887_20_26_20a_1928_4_201604_amt49_ce.jpg height: 728 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/mid_C_1887_20_26_20a_1928_4_201604_amt49_ce.jpg height: 355 pixels width: 499 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/C_1887_20_26_20a_1928_4_201604_amt49_ce.jpg height: 728 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/preview_C_1887_20_26_20a_1928_4_201604_amt49_ce.jpg height: 178 pixels width: 250 pixels