IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 72814 accession number: C.1890 & A-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 21 October 2025 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Brown earthenware, coated on the inside and underside of the cover with cream slip, and on the exterior with brown slip, decorated with cream and yellow slip, and painting in green and yellow under lead-glaze. The bowl has deep curved sides with two horizontal rectangular handles on opposing sides, and stands on a circular spreading foot. The domed cover has a narrow border, and on top has six applied straps forming arches which support the hemispherical knob which is moulded with leaves and a raspberry prunt. The sides of the bowl are decorated with yellow and cream beaded swags suspended from a horizontal beaded band below the rim. The edges of the handles are yellow. The cover has a band of beading around the inner edge of its border, and the applied straps and the leaves on the knob are painted alternately in green and yellow. title: basin NOTES ----- type: history note value: Thun, where 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/72814 TECHNIQUES ---------- slip coating CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware category: Swiss slipware DATING ------ creation date: 1780 - 1820 creation date earliest: 1780 creation date latest: 1820 culture: 18th Century, Late-19th Century, Early CREATORS -------- maker: unidentified Langnau pottery DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 18.6 dimension: Width units: cm value: 20.1 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Keramik aus Langnau. Zur Geschichte der bedeutendsten Landhafnerei im Kanton Bern Kommentierter Katalog, 2 vols --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/C_1890_20_26_20A_1928_1_201603_kly25_ce.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 859 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/mid_C_1890_20_26_20A_1928_1_201603_kly25_ce.jpg height: 596 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/C_1890_20_26_20A_1928_1_201603_kly25_ce.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 859 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/preview_C_1890_20_26_20A_1928_1_201603_kly25_ce.jpg height: 298 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/C_1890_20_26_20A_1928_2_201603_kly25_ce.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 805 pixels surrogate: 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