IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 75930 accession number: C.72-1997 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Thursday 22 December 2016 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Earthenware, moulded in three pieces, front, back, and base, glazed yellow, and painted in brownish-red, pale brown, dark brown, and black enamel colours. In the shape of a gatehouse with a central tower flanked on each side by three adjacent towers of graduated size, all moulded with coarses of stoneware, castellated at the top, and hollow inside. They stand on an oblong, stepped base, which is concave underneath. Both sides are decorated alike. The central tower is painted with a door, a clock face, and a pointed window with tracery, and the smaller towers with small arched windows. The base is brownish-red with reserved yellow lines to indicate the pointing of the brickwork. object type: Yellow-glazed earthenware spill holder in the shape of a gatehouse, painted in red, brown and black enamel-colours. title: spill holder LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by G.H.W. Rylands in memory of his mother Betha Wolferstan Rylands. STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/75930 SUBJECTS ------------------- gatehouse gatehouse TECHNIQUES ---------- Earthenware, moulded in three pieces, front, back, and base, glazed yellow, and painted in brownish-red, pale brown, dark brown, and black enamel colours. moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware DATING ------ creation date: 1820 - 1825 creation date earliest: 1820 creation date latest: 1825 culture: 19th Century, Early# CREATORS -------- maker: Dixon, Austin & Co. DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 12.8 dimension: Length units: cm value: 21.0 dimension: Width units: cm value: 5.7 IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa6/C_72_1997_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_72_1997_281_29.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa6/C_72_1997_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_72_1997_281_29.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa6/C_72_1997_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_72_1997_282_29.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa6/C_72_1997_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_72_1997_282_29.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels