IDENTIFIERS
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id:	75029
accession number:	C.42-1911

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Friday 4 December 2020

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: fritware, mould made painted in blue and with black outlines under a colourless glaze
Shape: rectangular body narrowing via a shoulder carination to a straight neck, silver mount over the neck with silver lid ending in a finial.
Exterior: on each face of the body, within a bracketed panel, two confronted cranes reserved in blue on a background of cloud scrolls and flower heads. On the shoulder a bracketed line below a frieze of scrolling leaves and flower heads reserved in blue. Silver neck terminates in lappets; otherwise neck and lid are undecorated. Glaze runs unevenly over the lowest sections of the body and only covers the corners of the underside of the base.
Interior: not visible
object type: fritware painted in blue and black under a colourless glaze
title:	bottle

NOTES
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type: history note
value: From the Joseph Dixon Collection, sold at Christie’s, 16th-17th March, 1911, lot 132


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
creditline: Given by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/75029


SUBJECTS
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cranes
cranes



TECHNIQUES
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fritware, mould made, painted in blue and with black outlines under a colourless glaze
moulding

CATEGORIES
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category: fritware (stonepaste)

DATING
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creation date:	1640 - 1665
creation date earliest:	1640
creation date latest:	1665
culture:	17th Century, Mid#

CREATORS
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maker: Unknown

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 17.3

dimension: Weight
units: g
value: 332

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 7.8



CITATIONS
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The Collection of Rhodian, Damascus, Persian and Hispano-Mauro Faience of the Late Joseph Dixon, Esq.
Ceramics
Persia and China. Safavid Blue and White Ceramics in the Victoria and Albert Museum 1501-1738
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