IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 76702 accession number: C.2294-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 1 September 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Buff earthenware, the dish moulded, with an applied central ring, and the cover thrown and covererd with moulded and modelled crayfish, tin-glazed and painted in blue, dark yellowish-green, yellow, red, reddish-brown, and black The glaze has 'crawled' inside the cover, also a little on the back of the rim of the dish. The eight-sided dish has a shaped rim, shallow curved sides, and an applied central cylindrical container for potted crayfish. This is surrounded by three pairs of sprays of stylized flowers and foliage. The high, domed cover fits over the central container. It is plain inside and on the outside is painted dark green at the bottom to resemble seaweed. The reddish-brown crayfish are arranged around it in tiers with their heads pointing downwards and it has one placed sideways across the top to serve as a knob. object type: tin-glazed earthenware dish with a cover in the form of a heap of crayfish, tin-glazed and painted in blue, dark yellowish-green, yellow, red, reddish-brown, and black title: dish NOTES ----- type: history note value: Lovett Collection; Puttick & Simpson, 6 March, 1903, Lovett Sale; 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/76702 SUBJECTS ------------------- crayfish flower crayfish flower TECHNIQUES ---------- tin-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: French faïence DATING ------ creation date: 1750 - 1799 creation date earliest: 1750 creation date latest: 1799 culture: 18th Century, second half CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified Rouen pottery EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Feast and Fast: The Art of Food in Europe (1500-1800) 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_2294_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_2294_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_2294_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_2294_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_2294_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_2294_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_2294_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_2294_1928_282_29.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels