IDENTIFIERS
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id:	73384
accession number:	C.2345-1928

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Tuesday 26 August 2025

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Earthenware, tin-glazed and painted in blue, green, brownish-yellow and manganese-purples. The jug is baluster-shaped with a projecting lip, an applied roll handle with a 'kick' at the lower end, and a slightly domed cover attached by means of a pewter mount and hinged thumbpiece. It is decorated with flowering plant sprays, fantastic birds and grotesque and other figures arranged asymmetrically over the entire body and cover, and the handle is decorated with a wavy stem of  flowers and leaves. On the base is the factory mark of  script L in monogram with o, followed by C painted in brownish-yellow.
object type: tin-glazed earthenware jug and cover, tin-glazed and painted in polychrome with figures, fantastic  birds, and flowering plant sprays, and having a slightly domed cover attached by a pewter mount and hinged thumbpiece
title:	water jug

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Mr Cowie, 41, Shandwick Place, Edinburgh, from whom bought for £1.10.0 on 14 June 1901 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
collection:	J. W. L. Glaisher
creditline: Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/73384


SUBJECTS
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drinking
musician
bird
musician
bird



CATEGORIES
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category: tin-glazed earthenware
category: French faïence

DATING
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creation date:	1745 - 1755
creation date earliest:	1745
creation date latest:	1755
culture:	18th Century, Mid
culture:	Louis XV

CREATORS
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maker: Olerys and Laugier factory

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 21.8

dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 22.3

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 15.8



CITATIONS
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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
Faïences françaises XVIe-XVIIIe siècles
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