IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 71447 accession number: C.1169A-D-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 30 April 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Vase moulded in four sections, being three stacking base parts of diminishing size and a tall, inverted cone lid with central finial, the whole resembling a Chinese pagoda. All parts entirely covered in silver lustre. The base parts are rectangular in plan and each has plain sides and bevelled corners, from which project sockets for the insertion of flowers. The bottom tier stands on four corner legs on a stepped base and has sockets moulded as crowned human masks. On the other two tiers the sockets are fluted. , those on the next two tiers are fluted. The cover is in the form of an inverted cone with a finial. The underside is flat, within a deep foot-ring formed by the steps. object type: Dark red-grey earthenware, moulded and dipped in silver (platinum) lustre. title: vase NOTES ----- type: history note value: Bought at Gill and Reigate, Oxford Street, W. on 14 February, 1912 for £9.10 (nine pounds ten shillings), by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, 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, 1928 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/71447 TECHNIQUES ---------- earthenware, moulded in sections, and covered with silver (platinum) lustre moulding CATEGORIES ------ category: earthenware category: lead-glazed earthenware category: lustreware DATING ------ creation date: 1810 - 1840 creation date earliest: 1810 creation date latest: 1840 culture: 19th Century, Early DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Depth units: cm value: 12.5 dimension: Height units: cm value: 34.7 dimension: Width units: cm value: 15.5 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge The Don Pottery 1801-1893 Fitzwilliam Museum Handbooks, English Pottery The Leeds Pottery 1770-1881 19th Century Lustreware Illustrated Guide to British Jugs : from mediaeval times to the twentieth century Manufacturing Processes of Tableware during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_1169A_D_1928_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/mid_C_1169A_D_1928_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_1169A_D_1928_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/preview_C_1169A_D_1928_281_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_1169A_D_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/mid_C_1169A_D_1928_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_1169A_D_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/preview_C_1169A_D_1928_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_1169A_D_1928_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/mid_C_1169A_D_1928_283_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_1169A_D_1928_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/preview_C_1169A_D_1928_283_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels