IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 73381 accession number: C.2342-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 23 September 2025 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Earthenware, moulded, pierced, tin-glazed and painted in blue, greyish-green, pale and dark yellow, and manganese-purple. Rectangular with a raised moulded border, and a shell-shaped projection at the top with two holes for suspension pierced below it. The area within the border is painted with Orpheus playing a lyre to the Beasts. Orpheus is seated holding his lyre beside a tree in a landscape with two smaller trees in the distance to left, and various bushes and grasses in the foreground. The beasts are seated or standing in front of him. They include a stork, a lion, a monkey, a stag, an ostrich, a hound (?) and a rabbit. In the background there is a shoreline and a view of the sea with distant rocks, and a small sailing ship approaching from the right. The shell is coloured in blue and yellow. The border comprises a dark yellow band, a wider blue band, and a narrow dark yellow band with projecting blue formal leaves pointing outwards. object type: tin-glazed earthenware painted in polychrome with Orpheus and the Beasts title: wall panel NOTES ----- type: history note value: Sotheby’s London, 21 November 1918, part of lot 239; bought by James Heyman, the porter, for £5.5s.0d. on behalf of 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/73381 PEOPLE ------------------- Orpheus SUBJECTS ------------------- lyre lion stag rabbit ostrich stork lyre lion stag rabbit ostrich stork TECHNIQUES ---------- earthenware, moulded, pierced, tin-glazed overall, and painted on the front in blue, greyish-green, pale and dark yellow and manganese-purple high temperature colours moulding CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: French faïence DATING ------ creation date: 1750 - 1780 creation date earliest: 1750 creation date latest: 1780 culture: 18th Century, second half CREATORS -------- maker: Olerys and Laugier factory maker: Fouque et Pelloquin DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 1.3 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge La Faïence de Moustiers Faïence Ancienne Provençale Faïences anciennes de Moustiers Catalogue des faïences de Moustiers, Sèvres, Musée national de Céramique and Limoges, Musée national Adrien Dubuouché Ceramica CH, Inventaire National de la Céramique dans les Collections Publiques Suisses (1500-1950), Vaud III/I --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/C_2342_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_2342_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_2342_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_2342_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_2342_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_2342_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_2342_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_2342_1928_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels