IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 73267 accession number: C.2229-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 30 April 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Earthenware, tin-glazed overall except for edge of the base. Painted in blue. Square bottle with rounded shoulders and short cylindrical neck; very light for its size. The four sides are decorated in Oriental style with rocks and foliage amongst which are respectively a deer and a flying parrot, a deer and two perched exotic birds, a deer and one perched exotic bird, and a rabbit and two perched exotic birds. The sides have double lines running along the lower edge, arched lines at the top, and a wide vertical line between two narrow lines on the corners. Each shoulder is decorated with a flower and sprays of leaves enclosed in a heart-shaped outline, and round the neck are paired leaves on a continuous stem between horizontal bands. The base is marked with a crown over a shield charged with a cross. object type: Maiolica bottle, painted in blue with an Oriental style design of rocks and foliage, with deer, birds and a rabbit. title: bottle NOTES ----- type: history note value: Cambridge, Freeman's sale, 27 January 1904; purchased 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/73267 SUBJECTS ------------------- birds rabbit parrot deer foliage rocks birds rabbit parrot deer foliage rocks TECHNIQUES ---------- Earthenware, tin-glazed overall except for edge of the base. Painted in blue. tin-glazing TECHNIQUES ---------- painting CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: maiolica DATING ------ creation date: 1730 - 1780 creation date earliest: 1730 creation date latest: 1780 culture: 18th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Bianchi, Giovanni Giacomo maker: Unidentified Albisola factory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 21.4 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Italian Maiolica in the Fitzwilliam Museum CITATIONS -------- 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 Fitzwilliam Museum Handbooks, Italian Maiolica --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/C_2229_1928_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/mid_C_2229_1928_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/C_2229_1928_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/preview_C_2229_1928_281_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/C_2229_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/mid_C_2229_1928_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/C_2229_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/preview_C_2229_1928_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/C_2229_1928_283_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 442 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/C_2229_1928_283_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 442 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/C_2229_1928_283_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 442 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/preview_C_2229_1928_283_29.jpg height: 430 pixels width: 250 pixels