IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 73065 accession number: C.2065 & A-D-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 2 September 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Grey salt-glazed stoneware, hand-built with moulded, stamped, impressed, and pierced parts, and salt-glaze. The inkstand has a rectangular base supported on six fluted ball feet applied to the underside, which as two circular rolls of clay, one above the other, in the middle. Round the outer edge there is a border of two rows of impressed wave motifs. In the middle of the top of of the base there is an erection of openwork with two tiers, topped by two parrots. Applied to its right and left ends there is a narrow openwork panel and below it a rectangular panel with two birds perching on an inverted openwork heart. In front of the structure, on both sides, there are two cylindrical open trelliswork containers with flat tops, pierced by circular holes to hold the two ink pots, and three smaller holes for pens. At the back of the tops, on each side, there are three vertical projections, resembling a small building with columns on two levels. In front of the wells, in the middle, there is an openwork medallion, and on each side of the central structure a half openwork medallion. On one side, the upper level has two standing musicians playing a horn and a hurdy-gurdy, and on the lower level, three playing a ?, a hurdy-gurdy and a horn. On the other side, the upper level has on the left, man with a large garland of fruit and flowers draped across his body, and on the right, a man playing bagpipes, and on the lower level, a man playing a horn, and another playing a ?; the third figure, playing a hurdy-gurdy has been detached. All the men are wearing boots, knee-length breeches decorated with a scale pattern, and close-fitting jackets with buttons and frogging. Five of them wear tricorne hats and the rest, hats with tall crowns and broad brims. object type: grey salt-glazed stoneware double-sided inkstand with four inkwells, decorated with figures of musicians, and panels pierced with ornamental patterns title: ink stand NOTES ----- type: history note value: Max and Maurice Rosenheim Collection; sold Sotheby's, 3-4 May 1923, Catalogue of the collection of porcelain & pottery formed by the late Max Rosenheim Esq. F.S.A. and Maurice Rosenheim Esq. F.S.A. (sold by order of the executors), on 2nd day, lot 175; purchased for £7.10s. 0d., 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/73065 PEOPLE ------------------- musicians SUBJECTS ------------------- writing birds birds TECHNIQUES ---------- salt-glazing TECHNIQUES ---------- hand building CATEGORIES ------ category: stoneware category: salt-glazed stoneware category: German stoneware DATING ------ creation date: 1750 - 1850 creation date earliest: 1750 creation date latest: 1850 culture: 18th Century-19th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified Westerwald pottery DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 37.2 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge German Stoneware 1200-1900 Archaeology and Cultural History --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_2065_20_26_20A_D_1928_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: 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