IDENTIFIERS
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id:	72885
accession number:	C.1929-1928

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Tuesday 20 January 2026

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Reddish-buff earthenware, thrown, incised, painted in white, brown and pale red slips, and green under clear glaze. Circular with a deep curved well and outward sloping rim, standing on a flat base. In the well, a white bird pulls a loaded canopied cart past a stylized tree in the middle. They stand on a green ground with pale brown stripes. Below is the date 18  28 [the 1 resembles an A], with short vertical white lines before, after, and between the pairs of digits. On the rim there are sixteen spaced groups of three short white rradiating lines. The exterior is glazed except for the base.
object type: slipware dish decorated with a bird pulling a canopied cart past a tree, and the date 1828
title:	dish

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Mrs Born-Straub, Thun, from whom purchased in December 1903 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
collection:	J. W. L. Glaisher
creditline: Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/72885


SUBJECTS
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bird
cart
tree
bird
cart
tree



TECHNIQUES
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throwing (pottery technique)

CATEGORIES
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category: lead-glazed earthenware
category: Swiss slipware

DATING
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creation date:	1828 - 1828
creation date earliest:	1828
creation date latest:	1828
culture:	1820s

CREATORS
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maker: Unidentified Heimburg potter

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Diameter
units: cm
value: 31.2

dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 4.9



CITATIONS
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Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge
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