IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 72914 accession number: C.1964-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 7 October 2025 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Red earthenware with applied moulded relief decoration, and two ring handles, covered overall with dark brown lead-glaze. The cistern is half octagonal in plan with a flat back. The two ends are applied with ring handles near the top. The wide central panel at the front has a spigot hole near the base, and above, a standing man and woman wearing seventeenth-century costume. On either side of them there are narrower slanting panels each decorated at the top with a crozier (the charge on the shield-of-arms of Basle), below that, a woman standing with a basket of fruit on her head, and at the bottom, three acorns. Incised roughly on the exterior of the back is the date '1763'. object type: red earthenware, with moulded decoration in relief covered with dark brown glaze: a man and woman embracing flanked by panels each with a crozier from the arms of Basle, a figure of a woman with a basket on her head, and three acorns title: wall cistern NOTES ----- type: history note value: Madame Sattler, Basle, from whom purchased in October 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/72914 SUBJECTS ------------------- drinking crozier acorn man woman crozier acorn man woman CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware DATING ------ creation date: 1763 - 1763 creation date earliest: 1763 creation date latest: 1763 culture: 18th Century, third quarter CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 19.8 dimension: Width units: cm value: 22 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/aa11/C_1964_1928.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/mid_C_1964_1928.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/C_1964_1928.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/preview_C_1964_1928.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels