IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 74922 accession number: C.40.F4-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 25 March 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Buff earthenware, thickly potted, tin-glazed except for most of the base, and painted on the exterior in blue and manganese-purple. The lower part of an albarello with bulging sides rising from a concave disk base, and contracting slightly as they rise. The main field is decorated in blue with three half horizontal leaves with plants with spiral tendrils rising between them. Below this there is are horizontal bands, blue, manganese-purple, and two blue, then a row of large blue spots, and round the projecting edge of the base two blue bands. There is a hole in the base. object type: tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue and manganese-purple title: fragment of pharmacy jar NOTES ----- type: history note value: Probably found in Cambridge; 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/74922 SUBJECTS ------------------- pharmacy TECHNIQUES ---------- buff earthenware, thrown, tin-glazed, and painted in blue and manganese-purple throwing (pottery technique) CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: Netherlands maiolica DATING ------ culture: 16th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 14.5 dimension: Width units: cm value: 10.7 IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa5/C_40_F4_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_40_F4_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_40_F4_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_40_F4_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_40_F4_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_40_F4_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_40_F4_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_40_F4_1928_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels