IDENTIFIERS
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id:	73387
accession number:	C.2348-1928

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Tuesday 27 May 2025

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Earthenware, moulded,with two applied cylindrical spouts, tin-glazed, painted in dark manganese-purple, and sponged in blue and yellow. The flask is in the form of a book with two cylindrical spouts at the top when the book is upright, and four horizontal projections on the spine. These are painted in dark manganese-purple, and between the first and second from the top is the inscription 'joye'Des/hommes (joy of men).  The sides are sponged in blue and yellow to give a marbled effect, and the fore edge and the spouts are painted yellow.
object type: tin-glazed earthenware painted in manganese and sponged in blue and yellow. Inscribed on the spine 'joye/des/hommes'
title:	flask

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Henry Griffiths Collection, London; sold Sotheby's, 28 February 1898, lot         ; bought for £2.2s.0d. 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/73387

PEOPLE
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Griffiths, Henry

SUBJECTS
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drinking



TECHNIQUES
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tin-glazed earthenware painted in manganese-purple and yellow, and sponged or dabbed in  blue and yellow
moulding
TECHNIQUES
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hand building

CATEGORIES
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category: tin-glazed earthenware
category: French faïence

DATING
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creation date:	1750 - 1800
creation date earliest:	1750
creation date latest:	1800
culture:	18th Century, second half

CREATORS
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maker: Unidentified

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Depth
units: cm
value: 6

dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 19.5

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 12.8



CITATIONS
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Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge
Céramiques Révolutionnaires
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