IDENTIFIERS
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id:	72915
accession number:	C.1965-1928

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Tuesday 7 October 2025

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Red earthenware with applied proejctions, partially coated with white slip, incised with the date, and covered on three exterior sides and inside with unevenly flecked green lead-glaze; the base and back are undecorated. The cistern is rectangular with projecting mouldings at the top and bottom, and two hook-like projections on the narrow sides take suspension cords. At centre front of the lower edge there is a hole to take a spigot at the base of a pyramidal ornament with horizontal indentations. Above is the date, probably 1556, incised through the slip to show the dark body beneath. Before the first figure, between the figures, and after the last, there are decorative motifs comprising a diamond-shaped outline with a shallow S shaped line attached to it at the top and bottom. Inside the top edge there are triangular supports in the corners on which to rest a cover, no longer present.
object type: red earthenware, partly slip-coated, incised with the date 1556 (or 1776), and covered with green lead-glaze
title:	cistern

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Bought from Monsieur Bossard, Lucerne, in September 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/72915





CATEGORIES
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category: lead-glazed earthenware
category: slipware

DATING
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creation date:	1556 - 1556
creation date earliest:	1556
creation date latest:	1556
culture:	16th Century, Mid

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Depth
units: cm
value: 8

dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 18.4

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 18.3



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