IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 73572 accession number: C.2479 & A-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Friday 24 March 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Pale buff earthenware tin-glazed and painted in blue. Of octagonal baluster form with a domed cover with an octagonal flange, a large round knob, and an internal circular rim. The body is decorated with a Chinese landscape with an emperor in a two-wheeled chariot pushed by a naked man, in front of it are two more figures, one of whom bears a parasol. Round the shoulder and on the lid are lambrequins filled with conventional flowers and scrolls in reserve. Below the scene there is a horizontal band of small panels wth figures in landscapes alternating with foliated motifs, and below that, a foliated motif on each facet. The dome of the cover is decorated with lambrequins matching those on the shoulder,but pointing upwards, and on the flange has alternating pointed leave's and fungus (?). The junction of the knob and cover is encircled by three narrow blue bands. The top of the knob is painted with a man in a landscape below which are two narrow horizontal bands and a row of downward pointing V shapes. On the base and cover is the mark V over L. object type: tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue with an Emperor in a chariot and other figures in a Chinese landscape title: vase NOTES ----- type: history note value: Max and Maurice Rosenheim Collection; sold Sotheby's, 3-4 May 1923, Catalogue of the collection of porcelain & pottery formed by the late Max Rosenheim Esq., FSA and Maurice Rosenheim, FSA., day 2, lot 260, ‘An important delft octagonal vase and cover, painted in blue with Chinese subjects, white on blue lambrequin on the shoulder, mark: VL in monogram, 26 inches, about 1660’; bought for £23 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 Bequerst STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/73572 TECHNIQUES ---------- pale buff earthenware, thrown, formed externally to create eight facets, tin-glazed and painted in blue; the cover made separately throwing TECHNIQUES ---------- forming TECHNIQUES ---------- tin-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: Delftware DATING ------ creation date: 1685 - 1700 creation date earliest: 1685 creation date latest: 1700 culture: 17th Century, Late CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified Delft factory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 66.1 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa5/C_2479_20_26_20A_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_2479_20_26_20A_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_2479_20_26_20A_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_2479_20_26_20A_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_2479_20_26_20A_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_2479_20_26_20A_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_2479_20_26_20A_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_2479_20_26_20A_1928_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa5/C_2479_20_26_20A_1928_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa5/mid_C_2479_20_26_20A_1928_283_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa5/C_2479_20_26_20A_1928_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa5/preview_C_2479_20_26_20A_1928_283_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa5/C_2479_20_26_20A_1928_284_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa5/mid_C_2479_20_26_20A_1928_284_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa5/C_2479_20_26_20A_1928_284_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa5/preview_C_2479_20_26_20A_1928_284_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels