IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 73374 accession number: C.2335-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 25 March 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Earthenware, moulded, tin-glazed, and painted in blue, olive-green, two shades of brownish-yellow, and manganese-purple. Circular with a wavy rim, and deep curved and obliquely fluted sides, standing on a foortring pierced by two holes for suspension. Decorated at the top with the sun shining over the Pont de Nevers which has a lantern in the middle and is flanked by trees. Five figures are crossing the bridge. Below there are small boats on the river Loire, one with a sail. The river curves round the circumference and has five larger sailing boats round the lower edge, with other boats laden with barrels in tow. In the middle there is double-masted frigate flying the French tricolour flag, flanked by trees. Below the ship is the inscription 'Francois/Frailier/1804 An 12' (year 12). object type: Bowl of tin-glazed earthenware (faïence), painted in polychrome high temperature colours with the bridge at Nevers and shipping on the river Loire, and inscribed 'Francois/Frailier/1804 An 12' title: bowl NOTES ----- type: history note value: V. Deschamps, 60 rue Beau Voisine, from whom purchased on 10 January 1907 for 50 francs 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/73374 SUBJECTS ------------------- bridge boat sailing ship river Pont de Nevers Nevers bridge boat sailing ship river Pont de Nevers Nevers TECHNIQUES ---------- earthenware, moulded, tin-glazed, and painted in blue, olive-green, two shades of brownish-yellow, and manganese-purple moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- tin-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: French faïence DATING ------ creation date: 1804 - 1804 creation date earliest: 1804 creation date latest: 1804 culture: 19th Century, Early culture: Napoleon I CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 9 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Faïences françaises XVIe - XVIIIe siècles Céramiques Revolutionnaires Faïences et métiers Nevers et son rayonnement du 17ème au 19ème siècle Les faïences à thèmes fleurons du XVIIIe siècle Mapping Time, The Calendar and its History Tableaux Anciens, Tableaux Modernes, Objets d'Art --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/C_2335_1928_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/mid_C_2335_1928_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/C_2335_1928_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/preview_C_2335_1928_281_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/C_2335_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/mid_C_2335_1928_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/C_2335_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/preview_C_2335_1928_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels