IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 73367 accession number: C.2328-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Wednesday 8 September 2021 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue, yellow, manganese-purple, and purplish-grey. The circular plate has a slightly wavy edge, a sloping rim, and a flat centre. It is decorated in the middle with a trophy comprising a bird-cage with an open door, a pastoral staff or crozier, a sword and a spade, accompanied by the inscription 'VV la liberté/1791. On the sloping rim there is a border of dotted festoons enclosing a stylized leaf bordered by a narrow line encircling the edge. title: plate 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/73367 SUBJECTS ------------------- bird cage crozier spade bird cage crozier spade TECHNIQUES ---------- tin-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: French faïence category: faïence patriotique DATING ------ creation date: 1791 - 1791 creation date earliest: 1791 creation date latest: 1791 culture: 18th Century, Late culture: Louis XVI CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter At Rim units: cm value: 34 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Paris, City of Revolution CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Paris, City of Revolution --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/C_2328_1928.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/mid_C_2328_1928.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/C_2328_1928.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/preview_C_2328_1928.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels