IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 71891 accession number: C.1378-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 26 March 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Buff earthenware, tin-glazed on the front and painted in blue and manganese-purple. Octagonal with two suspension holes at the top. Painted on the front with a simplified version of the arms of the Worshipfull Company of Apothecaries with the motto 'OPIFERQUE PER ORBEM DICOR' in manganese on a curved ribbon below title: pill-tile NOTES ----- type: history note value: Said to have come from Burnham Hall, near Wells, Norfolk; Mr Elliott, an antique dealer at Heacham, near Hunstanton, Norfolk, from whom bought on 17 April, 1900 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/71891 SUBJECTS ------------------- coat-of-arms coat-of-arms CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: English delftware category: pharmaceutical ware DATING ------ creation date: 1750 - 1775 creation date earliest: 1750 creation date latest: 1775 culture: 18th Century, third quarter CREATORS -------- maker: unidentified London pottery DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Depth units: cm value: 1.7 dimension: Height units: cm value: 29.7 dimension: Width units: cm value: 23.8 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: English Delftware, Engels Delfts Aardewerk title: Curious Variations on Ceramic Themes, Geometrical and Zoomorphic Forms CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge The Armorial London Delft of the Worshipful Society of Apothecaries English Delftware, Engels Delfts Aardewerk Delftware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Apothecaries Pill Tiles --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1378_1928.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 630 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/mid_C_1378_1928.jpg height: 603 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1378_1928.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 630 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/preview_C_1378_1928.jpg height: 302 pixels width: 250 pixels