IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 76931 accession number: EC.28-1945 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Wednesday 28 February 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Pale buff earthenware, tin-glazed overall except for the base, and painted in blue, pale green, yellow, brownish orange, and manganese-purple. The glaze is extremely white and shiny, and has crawled slightly in several places inside the mouth. The jar is ovoid with a cylindrical neck, flaring mouth, and two applied angular handles partly moulded with half male figures, which each terminate in a large leaf on the side of the body. One side is decorated with two men carrying long swords and standing between plants with dainty sprays of flowers growing from small mounds. On the other side, a youth and a girl, each holding a bird with string attached to the bird's legs, stand between similar plants. Below there is a border of similar foliage between orange horizontal bands. On the shoulder there is a band of scrolling yellow and pale green foliage between thin manganese-purple bands. On each side of the neck there is an flowering plant springing from a rock, with a small plant and rock on either side. Above, there is a border of scrolling yellow and pale green foliage between orange horizontal bands, and on the tops of the handles, a rectangle containing similar foliage reserved in a blue ground. object type: tin-glazed earthenware two-handled jar painted in blue, pale green, yellow, brownish orange and manganese-purple with figures, amongst flowering plants, and borders of scrolling foliage title: two-handled jar LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Purchased with the Glaisher Fund STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/76931 TECHNIQUES ---------- tin-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware DATING ------ creation date: 1880 - 1910 creation date earliest: 1880 creation date latest: 1910 culture: 19th Century, Late-20th Century, Early# CREATORS -------- maker: E. Samson fils aisné DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 34.6 dimension: Width units: cm value: 27.5 CITATIONS -------- Spanish Pottery 1248-1898 with a catalogue of the collection in the Victoria and Albert Museum Samson génie de l’imitation --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa4/EC_28_1945_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa4/mid_EC_28_1945_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa4/EC_28_1945_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa4/preview_EC_28_1945_281_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa4/EC_28_1945_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa4/mid_EC_28_1945_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa4/EC_28_1945_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa4/preview_EC_28_1945_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa4/EC_28_1945_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa4/mid_EC_28_1945_283_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa4/EC_28_1945_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa4/preview_EC_28_1945_283_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa4/EC_28_1945_284_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa4/mid_EC_28_1945_284_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa4/EC_28_1945_284_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa4/preview_EC_28_1945_284_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels