IDENTIFIERS
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id:	73326
accession number:	C.2305-1928

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Tuesday 25 March 2025

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Pale buff earthenware, pierced, tin-glazed and painted in blue and manganese-purple. The vase is lamp-shaped (or boat-shaped) with flaring mouths at either end and in the middle, and twelve holes pierced in the top to take the flower stems.  The body is supported on a slightly conical circular foot and short stem.  The sides are decorated with arrangements of Oriental style flowers and foliage, and on each end there is an oval panel containing a plant with two flowers surrounded by borders of wavy-edged leaves. The central spout is decorated with elongated leaves between pairs of manganese horizontal bands. The top of the foot is decorated with leaves radiating from the stem, with two manganese-purple bands above them, and two encircling the outer edge.
object type: tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue and manganese-purple with Oriental flowers
title:	flower vase

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Purchased in Rouen about 1900 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/73326


SUBJECTS
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flower arranging



TECHNIQUES
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tin-glazing

CATEGORIES
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category: tin-glazed earthenware
category: French faïence

DATING
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creation date:	1670 - 1700
creation date earliest:	1670
creation date latest:	1700
culture:	17th Century, second half
culture:	Louis XIV (1638-1715)

CREATORS
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maker: Unidentified Nevers pottery

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 16.8

dimension: Length
units: cm
value: 24.5



CITATIONS
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Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge
Faïences françaises XVIe-XVIIIe siècles
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