IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 73181 accession number: C.2189-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 18 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Tray. Earthenware, tin-glazed overall. Painted in dark blue, pale blue, green, yellowish-green, yellow, orange, and manganese-purple, with a powdered manganese border. Rectangular with rounded corners, shaped pie-crust edge and, at each end, a handle composed of a cabochon between scrolls. In the middle, a man supporting a vase of flowers on his shoulders, crouches on one knee on a pedestal, surrounded by an elaborate bérainesque frame of scrolls with a canopy at the top. Around this is a similar border comprising scrolls, foliage and diapered panels. The pie-crust border is mottled with manganese and has a narrow blue line round its lower edge. The handles are mottled in manganese on the outside, and painted in green, blue and yellow on the cabochons and scrolls on the inside. object type: Maiolica tray, painted in polychrome, with a man on one knee supporting a vase of flowers, surrounded by an elaborate frame of scrolls. title: tray NOTES ----- type: history note value: Mr Phillips, Hitchin; The Rev. G.A. Schneider, MA, from whom purchased on 10 February 1908 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher * for £6 (MS Cat. 2880). 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/73181 PEOPLE ------------------- man SUBJECTS ------------------- vase flowers vase flowers TECHNIQUES ---------- Earthenware, tin-glazed overall. Painted in dark blue, pale blue, green, yellowish-green, yellow, orange, and manganese-purple, with a powdered manganese border. tin-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: maiolica DATING ------ creation date: 1770 - 1790 creation date earliest: 1770 creation date latest: 1790 culture: 18th Century, Late CREATORS -------- maker: Ferniani Factory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 9.5 dimension: Length units: cm value: 51.5 dimension: Width units: cm value: 41.8 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Loan Exhibition of Pottery and Porcelain held in the Fitzwilliam Museum title: Italian Maiolica in the Fitzwilliam Museum CITATIONS -------- A Catalogue of A Loan Exhibition of Pottery and Porcelain held in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, May 26th-June 14th, 1902 Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Italian Maiolica Italian Maiolica and Incised Slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Ceramiche italiane ed europee nelle Civiche Collezioni secoli XVI-XX --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/C_2189_1928_281_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/mid_C_2189_1928_281_29.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/C_2189_1928_281_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/preview_C_2189_1928_281_29.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/C_2189_1928_282_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/mid_C_2189_1928_282_29.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/C_2189_1928_282_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/preview_C_2189_1928_282_29.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels