IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 72887 accession number: C.1930-1928 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 painted in green, yellow, white and brown, and with chattering on a white slip under lead-glaze. Circular, with a flat centre, steeply sloping sides and an outward-slanting rim. In the middle is a tea-table shaped like a goblet, on the right of which a woman is seated on a ladder-backed chair with a leaf-shaped bush behind it, and on the left, a man stands facing towards the woman with a small tree behind him. The woman wears a brown dress, a white fichu round her neck and a white cap. The man wears a yellow high-crowned hat, a green jacket, brown pantaloons and yellow shoes. Below them there is a rectangular area of horizontal and vertical lines over green and yellow, perhaps representing grass. Below, in white slip, is the date '1840'. At the top of the sides here is a band of white sip with five rows of chattering over it. The outward sloping rim is decorated with ten groups of white slip strokes of different lengths, separated by ten of three brown strokes. The exterior of the sides is glazed, and the base unglazed. object type: Slipware dish decorated with a couple taking tea and the date 1840 title: dish NOTES ----- type: history note value: Thun, Mrs Born-Straub, from whom purchased in December 1903 b 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/72887 SUBJECTS ------------------- tea drinking chair tea table tea drinking chair tea table TECHNIQUES ---------- throwing (pottery technique) CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware category: Swiss slipware DATING ------ creation date: 1840 - 1840 creation date earliest: 1840 creation date latest: 1840 culture: 19th Century, Mid CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 32.5 dimension: Height units: cm value: 5 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_1930_1928.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/mid_C_1930_1928.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_1930_1928.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/preview_C_1930_1928.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels