IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 73365 accession number: C.2326-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 11 March 2025 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Earthenware, thrown, tin-glazed and painted in blue, green, yellow, and manganese-purple. The bottle is of double gourd shape with a short neck and narrow mouth. The upper part is decorated with a woman in profile, walking to the left, carrying a saucepan with a spoon in it in her left hand and balancing a trough on her head. On either side of her there is a flowering plant, and further round, a group of agricultural implements - a spade, fork, hook or dibber, and a harrow. On the lower part, two naked boys are carousing between flowering plants. One sits on a barrel holding a wine glass in his right hand and a flask in his left; the other leans against an upright barrel on which are a mug and a flask. Above and to the left, is the name and date, 'C. Mornand. 1783.' On the other side a young peasant is walking to the left holding a hulot under his left arm with flowering plants in front of him and behind him. Below, round the base there are blue and manganese-purple bands. On the shoulder above the figures is a border of blue spots and stylized buds between pairs of leaves, three narrow manganese bands and a broad blue band. On the upper part there are two manganese bands at the bottom, and at the top a wavy blue band close to a manganese band, a space and then, on the neck, two manganese bands, a wide blue band and another manganese band , object type: Tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue, green, yellow, and manganese-purple with agricultural implements, a young peasant woman carrying a pan and a trough, a man carrying a hulot, two naked boys carousing beside wine barrels, and the name and date C. Mornand. 1783.' title: bottle NOTES ----- type: history note value: purchased in Geneva in September 1902 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/73365 SUBJECTS ------------------- Harrow spade fork barrel wine glass trough Harrow spade fork barrel wine glass trough TECHNIQUES ---------- earthenware, thrown, tin-glazed and painted in blue, green, yellow, and manganese-purple high temperature colours throwing (pottery technique) CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: French faïence DATING ------ creation date: 1783 - 1783 creation date earliest: 1783 creation date latest: 1783 culture: 18th Century, Late culture: Louis XVI CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 10.5 dimension: Height units: cm value: 17 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_2326_1928_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/mid_C_2326_1928_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/C_2326_1928_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/preview_C_2326_1928_281_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/C_2326_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_2326_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_2326_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_2326_1928_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels