IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 73361 accession number: C.2322 & A-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 18 February 2025 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Pale buff earthenware, thrown, with applied handles and knob, tin-glazed bluish-white, and painted in blue, green, yellow, orange, and black. The circular bowl has deep curved sides, and stands on a footring pierced by two suspension holes. On opposing sides there are heart-shaped horizontal handles each formed by two rolls of clay forming volutes. The slightly domed cover has a knob in the form of three volutes. Under the rim, the cover has a flange which fits inside the top of the bowl. The inside of the bowl is painted in blue and yellow with St Joseph leading the boy Christ by his hand, flanked by a flowering plant on the left and a church and a bush on the right. The scene is enclosed by a blue-edged band inscribed in black, 'Rd JosePh Arnaud recteur de notre dame de Bonnes nouvelles 1757'. Above is a border comprising four blue fan-shapes in panels, separating panels of diaper patterns, two painted in yellow and blue, and two in blue only. The exterior is painted with roughly drawn trees and rocks, and there is a blue band round the footring. The handles are spotted in blue, green, and yellow. The cover has a broad band matching the exterior of the bowl, within a wide blue band around the rim, and in the middle, concentric blue and green circles and blue plant motifs surrounding the knob. object type: tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue, green, yellow and black inside with St Joseph leading the boy Christ by the hand and inscribed in the border 'Rd JosePh Arnaud recteur de notre dame de Bonnes nouvelles 1757 title: ecuelle and cover NOTES ----- type: history note value: Paris, where purchased on 22 November 1904 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/73361 PEOPLE ------------------- Arnaud, Joseph, Rev. St Joseph Christ SUBJECTS ------------------- dining TECHNIQUES ---------- tin-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware DATING ------ creation date: 1757 - 1757 creation date earliest: 1757 creation date latest: 1757 culture: 18th Century, third quarter CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified Nevers pottery DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 15.4 dimension: Width units: cm value: 30 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_2322_20_26_20A_1928_281_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/mid_C_2322_20_26_20A_1928_281_29.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/C_2322_20_26_20A_1928_281_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/preview_C_2322_20_26_20A_1928_281_29.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/C_2322_20_26_20A_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/mid_C_2322_20_26_20A_1928_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/C_2322_20_26_20A_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/preview_C_2322_20_26_20A_1928_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels