IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 75466 accession number: C.541-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 30 April 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: White stoneware, press-moulded and salt-glazed. The wall pocket is in the shape of a woman's face with a bow in the hair at the top. The lower part of the face is flanked by rococo scrolls, and stylized acanthus leaves with oval depressions radiate from the top of her head. Below there are acanthus leaves forming a point. The flat back has a hole for suspension on the viewer's right, another is now missing due to loss of the upper part. title: wall pocket NOTES ----- type: history note value: Exhibition of English pottery held by Frederick Rathbone, Alfred Place, South Kensington, where purchased 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/75466 TECHNIQUES ---------- off-white stoneware, press-moulded, and salt-glazed press-moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- salt-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: stoneware category: white salt-glazed stoneware DATING ------ creation date: 1755 - 1770 creation date earliest: 1755 creation date latest: 1770 culture: 18th Century, third quarter culture: George II or George III CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified Staffordshire factory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 21 dimension: Width units: cm value: 17 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Ceramics, Catalogue of English Porcelain, Earthenware, Enamels and Glass collected by Charles Schreiber Esq., M.P., and the Lady Charlotte Elizabeth Schreiber, and presented to the Museum in 1884, Volume II, Earthenware The Incomparable Art. English Pottery from the Thomas Greg Collection The Illustrated Guide to Staffordshire Salt-glazed Stoneware --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_541_1928_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/mid_C_541_1928_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_541_1928_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/preview_C_541_1928_281_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_541_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/mid_C_541_1928_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_541_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/preview_C_541_1928_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels