IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 72920 accession number: C.1971-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 23 September 2025 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Pale buff earthenware, press-moulded, and coated overall with opaque pinkish-cream glaze, except for the underside of the edge. The oval base is slightly domed and has stones in relief on the viewer's left end and an applied spray of foliage in relief on the viewer's right end. Its underside is strengthened by four struts meeting in the middle, and there are two large ventilation holes in front of the central two supports. A man, a woman and a little boy are leaning over a large barrel which stands in the middle of the base. The man stands behind it, holding a beaker (or a bung) in his right hand, and looking to the viewer's left. He leans forward and rests his left hand on the back of his wife, who bends over the cask to gauge the contents. A little boy stands on a stone at the viewer's left end of the barrel and has his right arm over it to support himself. All three wear hats with shallow crowns and broad brims. The man wears baggy knee-length breeches and a three-quarter length coat. The woman has a square-necked jacket, and a long full skirt. The boy has long baggy trousers and a waist length jacket. object type: earthenware group of a man, a woman and a little boy leaning over a barrel standing on an oval base, glazed pinkish-cream overall title: figure group NOTES ----- type: history note value: Herr Gubler (antique dealer in Zurich); his posthumous sale, Zurich, 27 November 1911, lot 138, catalogue Plate XII; bought by Herr Messikommer for 100 francs ( + 10 for bidding) on behalf of 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/72920 SUBJECTS ------------------- barrel barrel TECHNIQUES ---------- press-moulding CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware DATING ------ creation date: 1780 - 1810 creation date earliest: 1780 creation date latest: 1810 culture: 18th Century, Late culture: 19th Century, Early DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 17.4 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_1971_1928_281_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/mid_C_1971_1928_281_29.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/C_1971_1928_281_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/preview_C_1971_1928_281_29.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/C_1971_1928_282_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/mid_C_1971_1928_282_29.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/C_1971_1928_282_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/preview_C_1971_1928_282_29.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/C_1971_1928_283_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/mid_C_1971_1928_283_29.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/C_1971_1928_283_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/preview_C_1971_1928_283_29.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/C_1971_1928_284_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/mid_C_1971_1928_284_29.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/C_1971_1928_284_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/preview_C_1971_1928_284_29.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels