IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 76599 accession number: C.2083-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 11 October 2022 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Grey salt-glazed stoneware, stained brown at one end, with incised, and applied moulded relief decoration. The barrel is curved at one end and flat at the other, and rests horizontally on four small feet. On top it has a central short neck, and at either end a loop handle for lifting. On the rounded end is an applied medallion with St John and the mighty angel with a book (Revelation, X, I) surrounded by incised wavy bands; and on the other end, a circle of impressed rosettes, some of which are on applied S-shaped pads of clay, and at the top, an oval pad moulded with a helmet and crest (demi-figure of a hound); at the bottom there are traces of a large applied medallion, now missing, sourrounding a hole, probably for a spigot. Around the neck there is a circle of impressed rosettes, and around the body on either side of the neck is a series of incised lines flanked by scalloped lines. Around the rounded end, level with the handle there is a circle of incised wavy lines and a circle of scalloped lines, and at the other end, level with the handle, a circle of incised wavy lines. object type: grey stoneware barrel with a central neck and two carrying handles, standing on four low feet, and decorated with incised wavy lines, impressed rosettes, and an applied moulded medallion of St John and the mighty angel with a book (Revelation, X, 1) title: barrel NOTES ----- type: history note value: Said to have come from a distillery in Ireland. Mr Weaver of 1, Noel Street, Wardour Street, London, from whom bought for £1.5s.0d on 9 March 1906 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/76599 PEOPLE ------------------- St John CATEGORIES ------ category: stoneware category: salt-glazed stoneware DATING ------ creation date: 1600 - 1699 creation date earliest: 1600 creation date latest: 1699 culture: 17th Century# CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified Bouffioulx factory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 20.3 dimension: Height units: cm value: 30.3 dimension: Length units: cm value: 38.2 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/aa1/C_2083_1928_281_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa1/mid_C_2083_1928_281_29.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa1/C_2083_1928_281_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa1/preview_C_2083_1928_281_29.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa1/C_2083_1928_282_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa1/mid_C_2083_1928_282_29.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa1/C_2083_1928_282_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa1/preview_C_2083_1928_282_29.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa1/C_2083_1928_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa1/mid_C_2083_1928_283_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa1/C_2083_1928_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa1/preview_C_2083_1928_283_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels