IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 73383 accession number: C.2344-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 26 August 2025 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Buff earthenware, thrown, with an applied handle, tin-glazed, and painted in blue, yellowish-green, yellow, and a little manganese-brown. The jug has a bulbous body, a wide cylindrical neck with a small lip, and a harp-shaped loop handle of D-section with a kick at its lower end. The top of the handle is pierced by a circular hole to take a pewter mount and thumbpiece for a cover. On the front is an oval medallion framed by a blue band and a border of flowers and foliage, in which the goddess Diana, is seated on a rock in front of a tree beside a small pond, while one of her nymphs replaces her sandals. The rest of the body is decorated with sprigs and larger posies of blue and yellow flowers and foliage, and on each side of the neck there are two garlands with a spray of flowers suspended between them. Two yellow horizontal lines encircle the top of the neck. The handle has flowers and leaves down its back and alternating blue dots and trefoil leaves down its two sides. On the base, painted in yellow is the mark C o over L underlined. object type: tin-glazed earthenware jug painted in blue, yellowish-green, yellow, and manganese-brown with Diana and a Nymph in an oval medallion framed by flowers, and surrounded by floral sprays and garlands title: jug NOTES ----- type: history note value: Mr G. Morganti, 29 Quai des Bergues, Geneva, from whom purchased for 160 francs on 20 September 1906 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/73383 PEOPLE ------------------- Diana SUBJECTS ------------------- drinking TECHNIQUES ---------- tin-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: French faïence DATING ------ creation date: 1750 - 1750 creation date earliest: 1750 creation date latest: 1750 culture: 18th Century, Mid CREATORS -------- maker: Olerys and Laugier factory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 21 dimension: Width units: cm value: 16.3 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Faïences anciennes de Moustiers Catalogue des faïences de Moustiers, Sèvres, Musée national de Céramique and Limoges, Musée national Adrien Dubuouché --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/C_2344_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_2344_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_2344_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_2344_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_2344_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_2344_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_2344_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_2344_1928_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/C_2344_1928_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/mid_C_2344_1928_283_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/C_2344_1928_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/preview_C_2344_1928_283_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels