IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 73449 accession number: C.2400-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 22 April 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Buff earthenware tin-glazed on both sides, and painted on the front in blue, two shades of dull orange (ochre) and manganese-purple. The flat centre of a circular plate with part of the footring pierced by a suspension hole. On the front on the left, Anna, dressed in two shades of orange, is standing with a goat behind her, and part of a building outlined in blue. On the right, Tobit, seated and dressed in manganese-purple and dull orange, raises both his hands towards her. On the reverse, inside the footring is the date '1572 A+' with a zig-zag above and below, and outside the footring, three stripes radiating outwards, all painted in blue. object type: tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue, two shades of dull orange, and manganese-purple with Tobit, Anna, and the goat; dated '1572 A+' on the reverse title: fragment of dish centre NOTES ----- type: history note value: Cambridge; found in 1897 in Christ's Lane, beneath some old cottages in a well by the side of an old clunch wall; the find site was recorded as No. 20 in a notebook recording the pottery finds of Mr S.J. Freeman, who gave the fragment in 1897 or 1898 to Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge, with the further information that the find site was opposite to the old Post Office. 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/73449 PEOPLE ------------------- Freeman, S.J. Anna Tobit SUBJECTS ------------------- goat goat TECHNIQUES ---------- buff earthenware, with pierced footring, tin-glazed, and painted in blue, two shades of dull orange, and manganese-purple tin-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: Netherlands maiolica DATING ------ creation date: 1572 - 1572 creation date earliest: 1572 creation date latest: 1572 culture: 16th Century, third quarter CREATORS -------- maker: Den Salm Pottery DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Depth units: cm value: 1.2 dimension: Length units: cm value: 8.7 dimension: Width units: cm value: 7.6 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Céramique de la Renaissance à Anvers --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa5/C_2400_1928_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa5/mid_C_2400_1928_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa5/C_2400_1928_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa5/preview_C_2400_1928_281_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa5/C_2400_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa5/mid_C_2400_1928_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa5/C_2400_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa5/preview_C_2400_1928_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels