IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 76728 accession number: C.2359-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 27 May 2025 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: buff earthenware, with an applied handle, tin-glazed, and painted in blue, pale green, dark bluish-green, yellow, manganese-purple, and black. The deep sided cup stands on a footring, and has a handle in the form of a curved twig dividing into two at the top. The twig and the rim are painted dark bluish-green and spotted with black. One side of the cup is decorated with a Chinese boy standing in a pond fishing with a net, flanked by small bushes. He wears a conical yellow hat, a pinkish-purple tunic and short breeches. On the other side, an older Chinese man is standing in a garden beside a pile of rocks and a small pavilion. He wears a similar hat, and a blue tunic over a longer yellow gown. On the base there is a dark green cross. object type: tin-glazed earthenware cup with a split twig handle, painted in polychrome with a Chinese boy fishing and a Chinese man standing in a garden beside a small pavilion title: cup NOTES ----- type: history note value: F.W. Phillips of Hitchin from whom purchased on 20 March 1899 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/76728 SUBJECTS ------------------- tea drinking Chinese man fishing net Chinese man fishing net CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware DATING ------ creation date: 1750 - 1775 creation date earliest: 1750 creation date latest: 1775 culture: 18th Century, third quarter CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 7 dimension: Width units: cm value: 9.5 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_2359_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_2359_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_2359_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_2359_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_2359_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_2359_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_2359_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_2359_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_2359_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_2359_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_2359_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_2359_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_2359_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_2359_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_2359_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_2359_1928_284_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels