IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 71832 accession number: C.1338-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 30 April 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Buff earthenware, press-moulded in the form of a scallop shell, with a pierced hole in the centre of the lower end, tin-glazed overall, and painted in blue and manganese-purple. In the middle are the initials and date 'D/D:E/1683' with three small lozenges below within a scrolled cartouche outlined in mananese-purple. The ridges and edges of the shell are outlined in blue, and there are blue spots on its rounded lower part. The flanges of the shell are decorated by a mermaid, a cross between a merman and a hippocamp, two shells (?) and a sea hound, and along the lower edge there is a row of four groups of scrolls separated by small circles. Around the curved edge of the shell there is a scalloped line. object type: earthenware, press-moulded, tin-glazed and painted in blue and manganese-purple; inscribed 'D/D:E/1683'. title: wash basin NOTES ----- type: history note value: Bought from John Bowden of Wardour Street, for £10 about 1896, 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 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/71832 PEOPLE ------------------- mermaid merman SUBJECTS ------------------- scallop shell scallop shell TECHNIQUES ---------- buff earthenware, press-moulded, tin-glazed, and painted in blue and manganese-purple press-moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- tin-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: English delftware DATING ------ creation date: 1683 - 1683 creation date earliest: 1683 creation date latest: 1683 culture: 17th Century, Late culture: Charles II CREATORS -------- maker: unidentified London pottery maker: Brislington Pottery DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 7.6 dimension: Length units: cm value: 44.2 dimension: Width units: cm value: 42.4 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Loan Exhibition of Pottery and Porcelain held in the Fitzwilliam Museum title: English Delftware, Engels Delfts Aardewerk title: English Delftware Dishes from the Glaisher Collection title: Treasures from the Fitzwilliam CITATIONS -------- A Catalogue of A Loan Exhibition of Pottery and Porcelain held in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, May 26th-June 14th, 1902 Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge English Delftware, Engels Delfts Aardewerk English Delftware Dishes from the Glaisher Collection Treasures from the Fitzwilliam: ''The Increase of Learning and other great Objects of that Noble Foundation'' Dated English Delftware Delftware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Baroque forms and decoration on English Pottery 1640-1760 Silver in Tudor and Early Stuart England, A Social History and Catalogue of the National Collection 1480-1660 --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/C_1338_1928_1_201205_adn21_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 883 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: 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