IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 76711 accession number: C.2307-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 4 August 2025 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Buff earthenware, thrown, tin-glazed and painted in blue and dark manganese-purple. The vase is gourd-shaped with a short, narrow neck, and flaring mouth. The lower part is painted with a continuous landscape with two groups of buildings painted in blue with manganese-purple outlines. Below, there are two narrow manganese-purple bands and two wide blue bands. The area above the landscape is encircled by a broad blue band flanked by pairs of narrow manganese-purple bands. The upper part is decorated with alternately straight and wavy vertical stripes, and round the neck there are two narrow manganese-purple bands and two broad blue bands. object type: Tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue and dark manganese-purple. The gourd-shaped vase is decorated on the lower part with a continuous landscape with two groups of buildings, on the upper part with alternately straight and wavy stripes, and the areas above, between and below these with horizontal bands of the two colours. title: bottle NOTES ----- type: history note value: Unknown before 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/76711 TECHNIQUES ---------- earthenware, thrown, tin-glazed except for the base, and painted in blue and dark manganese-purple throwing CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: French faïence DATING ------ creation date: 1680 - 1720 creation date earliest: 1680 creation date latest: 1720 culture: 17th Century, Late culture: 18th Century, Early CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified Nevers factory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 11.6 dimension: Height units: cm value: 20 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_2307_1928_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa1/mid_C_2307_1928_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa1/C_2307_1928_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa1/preview_C_2307_1928_281_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa1/C_2307_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa1/mid_C_2307_1928_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa1/C_2307_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa1/preview_C_2307_1928_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa1/C_2307_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_2307_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_2307_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_2307_1928_283_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa1/C_2307_1928_284_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa1/mid_C_2307_1928_284_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa1/C_2307_1928_284_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa1/preview_C_2307_1928_284_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels