IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 73990 accession number: C.2733 & A-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 25 February 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: buff earthenware, moulded in two parts (possibly three), tin-glazed pale greyish-blue, and painted in blue, green, yellow, red, and manganese-purple. The oval pot has straight sides which curve inwards towards the top, and are decorated in relief on both sides with a design of plants, with leaves and buds. Inside the top there is a ledge on which the cover rests. On the cover there is a recumbent cow, surrounded by a low bank decorated with plants in relief. The underside is unglazed and has a central hole. The sides of the pot and the edge of the cover are coloured green, and the plants are picked out in blue, yellow and red. The cow has blue features, a yellow nose, and a purple tail. It has a blue and yellow garland round its neck, and a polychrome floral spray across its back. On the underside there are four blue spots. object type: earthenware, moulded, tin-glazed greyish-blue and painted in polychrome title: butter pot NOTES ----- type: history note value: Lovett Collection; Puttick & Simpson, London, 6 March 1903, sale of Lovett collection, part of lot 258 bought with another item for £5.5s.0d. 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/73990 SUBJECTS ------------------- cow cow TECHNIQUES ---------- buff earthenware, moulded in parts, tin-glazed pale gryish-blue, and painted in blue, green, yellow, red, and manganese-purple metallic oxide colours moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- tin-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: Delftware DATING ------ creation date: 1750 - 1775 creation date earliest: 1750 creation date latest: 1775 culture: 18th Century, third quarter# CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified Delft factory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 11 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/aa6/C_2733_20_26_20A_1928_281_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa6/mid_C_2733_20_26_20A_1928_281_29.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa6/C_2733_20_26_20A_1928_281_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa6/preview_C_2733_20_26_20A_1928_281_29.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa6/C_2733_20_26_20A_1928_282_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa6/mid_C_2733_20_26_20A_1928_282_29.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa6/C_2733_20_26_20A_1928_282_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa6/preview_C_2733_20_26_20A_1928_282_29.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa6/C_2733_20_26_20A_1928_283_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa6/mid_C_2733_20_26_20A_1928_283_29.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa6/C_2733_20_26_20A_1928_283_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa6/preview_C_2733_20_26_20A_1928_283_29.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa6/C_2733_20_26_20A_1928_284_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa6/mid_C_2733_20_26_20A_1928_284_29.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa6/C_2733_20_26_20A_1928_284_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa6/preview_C_2733_20_26_20A_1928_284_29.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels