IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 73385 accession number: C.2346-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 4 August 2025 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Earthenware, thrown, tin-glazed overall, and painted in blue. The bottle is of bulbous double-gourd shape with a circular aperture in the top, and a slight concavity in the middle of the base, with three stilt marks outside it. The lower part is decorated with a continuous landscape with two houses and the tip of a church spire on one side, and on the other, a tree, a ruined tower and another house or fort with a pennant flying at each end of the roof. Between the buildings on one side is a soldier carrying a flag in his right hand and resting his left on the hilt of his sword while walking to the left, and on the other, a soldier carrying a gun over his shoulder and walking to the right. Both wear tricorne hats, coats with wide cuffs to the sleeves, breeches and shoes. Below there is a wide blue horizontal band between two narrow, and this is repeated at the junction of the two parts, and round the aperture in the top. Below that is a wide border comprising four scrollwork motifs with pointed partly hatched projections between them. The date, '1732' is painted on the base. object type: tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue on the lower part with buildings and two soldiers in a landscape, and on the upper part with a scrollwork border, and dated '1732' on the base title: bottle NOTES ----- type: history note value: The Vicarage, Haslingfield, Cambridgeshire; sale held there on 3 June 1898, part of lot 137; bought by Mr Freeman; Mr Freeman’s sale at Cambridge, 27 January 1904, lot 31 or lot 63 (both mentioned in catalogue entry by purchaser); bought 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/73385 PEOPLE ------------------- soldier SUBJECTS ------------------- drinking CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware DATING ------ creation date: 1732 - 1732 creation date earliest: 1732 creation date latest: 1732 culture: 1730s CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 12.9 dimension: Height units: cm value: 17.2 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Le faïence de Lyon, deuxième époque, le xviiie siècle --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/C_2346_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_2346_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_2346_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_2346_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_2346_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_2346_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_2346_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_2346_1928_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels