IDENTIFIERS
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id:	73294
accession number:	C.2255-1928

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Monday 18 December 2023

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Earthenware, covered overall with speckly off-white tin glaze. Painted in blue and dark yellow. Oblong with arched top, drop handles at each end, and supports with paw feet at the front. In the middle of the front is a hasp and on the top of the lid, a circular rim with an aperture in the middle.The front and lid are decorated with blue foliate scrolls and spots radiating symmetrically from the hasp. The hasp and feet are dark yellow, and the handles are picked out in blue. The back is undecorated.
object type: Maiolica coffer-shaped flask, painted in blue and yellow.
title:	flask

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Taormina, where purchased in April 1904 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
collection:	J. W. L. Glaisher
creditline: Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/73294





TECHNIQUES
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Earthenware, covered overall with speckly off-white tin glaze. Painted in blue and dark yellow.
tin-glazing

CATEGORIES
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category: tin-glazed earthenware
category: maiolica

DATING
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creation date:	1700 - 1800
creation date earliest:	1700
creation date latest:	1800
culture:	18th Century

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Depth
units: cm
value: 6.7

dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 9.8

dimension: Length
units: cm
value: 13.1



EXHIBITIONS HISTORY
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title:	Italian Maiolica in the Fitzwilliam Museum
CITATIONS
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Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge
Italian Maiolica and Incised Slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge
La maiolica siciliana dalle origine all'ottocento
Rectoverso. La maiolica siciliana secoli XVI e XVII, maestri, botteghe, influence
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