IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 73310 accession number: C.2287-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 1 April 2025 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: pinkish-buff earthenware, moulded, tin-glazed, and painted in blue, pale green, yellow, and dull red. Circular with a sloping sides and a flat base; on the reverse there are three stilt marks. In the middle of the front is a basket containing stylized flowers and two pomegranates. The sides are decorated with a wide Baroque style border comprising swags of flowers and foliage, linked by scrolls to shaped panels of trellis pattern. On the reverse of the side there is an 'M' in blue. object type: tin-glazed earthenware painted in polychrome with a basket of flowers and fruit in the centre, and an elaborate border of swags, scrolls, and trellis pattern on the sides title: plate NOTES ----- type: history note value: Jules Taurin, antiquaire, 4 Place Barthélémy and 3 rue Damiette (by the church of Saint Maclou), Rouen; bought for 1100 francs (£10.10d. at the then rate of exchange) on 21 October 1925 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/73310 SUBJECTS ------------------- dining basket of flowers basket of flowers TECHNIQUES ---------- earthenware, moulded, tin-glazed, and painted in blue, green, yellow and red high temperature colours moulding CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: French faïence DATING ------ creation date: 1750 - 1750 creation date earliest: 1750 creation date latest: 1750 culture: 18th Century, Mid culture: Louis XV CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 24 dimension: Height units: cm value: 3 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/C_2287_1928.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/mid_C_2287_1928.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/C_2287_1928.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/preview_C_2287_1928.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels