These images are provided for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons License (BY-NC-ND). To license a high resolution version, please contact our image library who will discuss fees, terms and waivers.
Download this imageCreative commons explained - what it means, how you can use our's and other people's content.
Factory:
Cantagalli factory
(Perhaps)
Factory:
Unknown
(Perhaps)
Earthenware, tin-glazed overall. Painted in pinkish-red lustre.
Globular body standing on a footring, with cylindrical neck and roll handle with upturned lower end.
The neck is decorated with three lozenges containing stylised foliage, and with fan-shaped palmettes in the triangular spaces. On the front of the lower part there is a bird amid foliage in a circular medallion flanked by triangular compartments containing fan-shaped palmettes. The sides are decorated with stylised foliage and cross-hatched shapes, with above and below, a row of wheels reserved in a wide lustred band. The footring is decorated with spots between horizontal bands. The handle is lustred overall.
History note: Countess Howard de Walden; Thomas Sutton, Eastbourne, from whom purchased in February 1900 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher.
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 20.2 cm
Width: 15.2 cm
Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
Late 19th Century
17th Century
Circa
1600
CE
-
1700
CE
Perhaps Florence, Cantagalli factory, c. 1890, or Spanish, seventeenth century.
Decoration
composed of
reduced pigment lustre
( pinkish-red lustre)
Footring
Diameter 7.7 cm
Tin-glazing : Earthenware, tin-glazed overall. Painted in pinkish-red lustre.
Accession number: C.2281-1928
Primary reference Number: 80865
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2022) "Jug" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/80865 Accessed: 2022-12-08 07:32:14
To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
{{cite web|url=https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/80865
|title=Jug
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2022-12-08 07:32:14|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
To call these data via our API (remember this needs to be authenticated) you can use this code snippet:
https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/api/v1/objects/object-80865
To use this as a simple code embed, copy this string:
<div class="text-center">
<figure class="figure">
<img src="https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa1/C_2281_1928_281_29.jpg"
alt="Jug"
class="img-fluid" />
<figcaption class="figure-caption text-info">Jug</figcaption>
</figure>
</div>
Accession Number: E.36.1903
Accession Number: E.P.287
Accession Number: E.9.1909
Accession Number: Loan Ant.103.97
Updates about future exhibitions and displays, family activities, virtual events & news. You'll be the first to know...
