IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 72880 accession number: C.1924-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 20 January 2026 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: reddish-buff earthenware, thrown, coated on the front with dark brown slip, decorated with an incised design and painted in brown and white slip, green, and yellow, under clear, probably lead glaze The circular dish has a deep curved well, a steeply rising curved border with a vertical edge on the exterior. In the middle a man and woman stroll among flowering plants. He smokes a large pipe, and holds his companion by her hand.He wears a high-crowned, broad-brimmed green hat, a green coat, brown trunks and white boots. His companion has a yellow hat tilted at a rakish angle, a yellow bodice and a brown skirt with a white apron over the front. On either side of them there is a stylized plant with a red flower and green leaves with incised veins. There are three concentric circles round the inner and outer edges of the border which is slip trailed with an inscription and date: Lieben und glichet wördeb ust due grise freyd auf ärden 1810'. The exterior sides are glazed, and the base is unglaze. object type: red earthenware coated with dark brown slip, and painted in white and red slips, yellow and green with a man and woman in contemporary costume. The rim is inscribed in slip,'lieben und gelichet wörden ist die grosse freud auf ärden 1810' (To love and be loved is the great joy on earth) title: dish NOTES ----- type: history note value: Mrs Born-Straub, Thun, near Heimberg, from whom purchased in December 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/72880 SUBJECTS ------------------- tree man woman tree man woman TECHNIQUES ---------- reddish-buff earthenware, thrown, coated on the front with dark brown slip, decorated with an incised design and painted in brown and white slip, green, and yellow, under clear, probably lead glaze; the exterior sides are glazed and the base unglazed throwing CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware category: Swiss slipware DATING ------ creation date: 1810 - 1810 creation date earliest: 1810 creation date latest: 1810 culture: 19th Century, Early CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified Heimberg potter DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 6.9 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_1924_1928.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/mid_C_1924_1928.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_1924_1928.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/preview_C_1924_1928.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels