IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 73388 accession number: C.2349-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 27 May 2025 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Pinkish-buff earthenware tin-glazed overall and painted in manganese purple. The glaze is uneven and streaked on the reverse, and the body shows through it. The plate has a twelve-sided edge, a sloping rim, and a flat well. It is painted on the flat area with a bird, and a Chinese boy holding a vase standing beside a contorted flowering tree. On the sloping rim there are six detached leaf sprays, and below the edge, a scalloped line with six pendant bunches of leaves. object type: tin-glazed earthenware plated painted in manganese-purple with a bird, a Chinese boy holding a vase, and a flowering tree title: plate NOTES ----- type: history note value: Monsieur Dussault-Pommereuil, 31, rue Froide, Caen, from whom purchased for 6 francs, on March 31, 1894 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/73388 SUBJECTS ------------------- bird Chinese boy bird Chinese boy TECHNIQUES ---------- earthenware, moulded, tin-glazed overall, and painted in manganese-purple moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- tin-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: French faïence DATING ------ creation date: 1750 - 1775 creation date earliest: 1750 creation date latest: 1775 culture: 18th Century, third quarter CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 23 dimension: Height units: cm value: 2.5 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Les anciennes faïences rennaises --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/C_2349_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_2349_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_2349_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_2349_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_2349_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_2349_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_2349_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_2349_1928_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels