IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 73793 accession number: C.2617A-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 25 February 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue, green, red, and manganese-purple. Of reeded octagonal double-gourd form (Cachemire type). The lower part is divided into eight panels painted alternately with Chinese flowers, plants and birds, and with Chinese emblems and flowers in panels reserved on a trellis-diaper ground; on the neck, leaf-shaped panels are filled with growing flowers and stylised butterflies. One of a pair. object type: tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue, green, red, and manganese-purple; one of a pair title: vase NOTES ----- type: history note value: Two ladies who believed the pair were French because their father had bought them about 1850 in France ; sold for them on commission by Mr Sutton of Eastbourne, from whom purchased for 'only £20! ' on 7 November 1898 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/73793 SUBJECTS ------------------- flower bird flower bird TECHNIQUES ---------- tin-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: Delftware DATING ------ creation date: 1700 - 1700 creation date earliest: 1700 creation date latest: 1700 culture: 17th Century, Late-18th Century, Early# CREATORS -------- maker: Metal Pot Factory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 59 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Delfts aardewerk, Geschiedenis van een nationaal product Delffse porceleyne. Dutch Delftware 1620-1850 --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/C_2617A_1928_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/mid_C_2617A_1928_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/C_2617A_1928_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/preview_C_2617A_1928_281_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/C_2617A_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/mid_C_2617A_1928_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/C_2617A_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/preview_C_2617A_1928_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels