IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 72824 accession number: C.1897-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 16 December 2025 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Red earthenware, thrown and hand shaped, coated with cream slip except for the base, with decoration incised through the slip to reveal the red body, and painted in green under yellowish lead-glaze. The basin has a flat, circular middle from which the sides rise upwards and are squared and flanged at the top of the front and sides; the back is higher and has a flat edge at the top. On the viewer’s left side, there is a twisted loop handle attached to the back at the top and to the top of the flange on the side; the handle on the viewer’s right has been broken off, and is missing. The inside of the base and back are each decorated with an incised floral spray painted here and there with green, and with incised squiggles and strokes in the spaces. Above, on the back, is the date, '1678'. The top edge of the flanges on the front and sides are incised with interlacing curved lines forming alternating ellipses painted green and lozenge-shapes filled with incised criss-cross pattern, appearing red. object type: Slipware hand washing basin with incised floral and geometrical decoration painted in green under yellowish lead-glaze title: wash basin NOTES ----- type: history note value: Mrs Born-Straub, 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/72824 SUBJECTS ------------------- hand washing CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware category: incised slipware category: Swiss slipware DATING ------ creation date: 1678 - 1678 creation date earliest: 1678 creation date latest: 1678 culture: 17th Century, Late CREATORS -------- maker: Hermann, Niklaus DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 17.5 dimension: Width units: cm value: 33.3 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_1897_1928_1_201604_amt49_ce.jpg height: 813 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/mid_C_1897_1928_1_201604_amt49_ce.jpg height: 397 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/C_1897_1928_1_201604_amt49_ce.jpg height: 813 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/preview_C_1897_1928_1_201604_amt49_ce.jpg height: 198 pixels width: 249 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/C_1897_1928_2_201604_amt49_ce.jpg height: 831 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: 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