IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 73031 accession number: C.2033-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 21 February 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Grey stoneware with a thin brown wash, salt-glaze, and a pewter cover. The tankard has a tapering cylindrical body with cordons round the top and base, and a strap handle with a wavy tail at its lower end. A convex pewter cover with an ovoid thumb piece is hinged to a mount attached to the top of the handle. The sides are decorated with three applied panels moulded in relief. On the right of the handle, at the top is a small figure, a mask, and foliage issuing from horns, over a trefoil arch under which Samson is carrying off the gates of Gaza; below. two nude boys support a rectangular panel bearing the words 'MANOH/SAMSON/13'. In the middle under a different version of the ornamental motif at the top, is a trefoil arch under which is an angel on a flaming altar flanked by a kneeling figures of Manoah and his wife, under which are the initials 'PR', and below, two lions (?) support a rectangular panel bearing the words 'MANOH/I VDIKA/.3.4.'. On the left of the handle, at the top is a seated devil flanked by horns , scrolls, and foliage, below which is a trefoil arch, enclosing Delilah and a man holding a knife to shave Samson's hair in front of a tent ,and a table on which is a ewer and a cup. Below a kneeling man and woman support a rectangular panel inscribed 'DIELILA/BEDREG/SAMS' object type: brown salt-glazed stoneware tankard with a pewter cover, the sides decorated with scenes of Samson carrying off the gates of Gaza, the Sacrifice of Manoah, and Delilah shaving Samson's hair title: tankard NOTES ----- type: history note value: William Mullins, 52 High Street, Salisbury; from whom purchased for £4 by letter of 16 August by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge. The jug arrived in Cambridge 24 August 2022. 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/73031 PEOPLE ------------------- Samson Manoah Delilah SUBJECTS ------------------- Samson carrying off the Gates of Gaza Manoah's Sacrifice Delilah cutting the hair of Samson Samson carrying off the Gates of Gaza Manoah's Sacrifice Delilah cutting the hair of Samson CATEGORIES ------ category: stoneware category: salt-glazed stoneware category: German stoneware DATING ------ creation date: 1567 - 1570 creation date earliest: 1567 creation date latest: 1570 culture: 16th Century, Late culture: Renaissance CREATORS -------- maker: Emens, Jan DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 29 dimension: Width units: cm value: 13.5 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Das Rheinische Steinzeug, 2 vols Raerens Töpferfamilie Menneken --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/C_2033_1928_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/mid_C_2033_1928_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/C_2033_1928_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/preview_C_2033_1928_281_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/C_2033_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/mid_C_2033_1928_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/C_2033_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/preview_C_2033_1928_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/C_2033_1928_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/mid_C_2033_1928_283_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/C_2033_1928_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/preview_C_2033_1928_283_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/C_2033_1928_284_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/mid_C_2033_1928_284_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/C_2033_1928_284_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/preview_C_2033_1928_284_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels