IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 71958 accession number: C.1419-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Thursday 15 August 2019 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Buff earthenware, press-moulded, tin-glazed yellowish-white and painted in blue and a little yellow. Rectangular with a rectangular depression in the top for the salt, and four feet with leaves in relief on the corners above them. The two short sides are moulded in relief with an oval shield, and the two long sides with a winged cherub's head with a semi-circular projection below. The decoration is blue except for the cherub's wings. The depression for the salt is painted with a spray of foliage surrounded by two lines and a row of dots. The outer edge of the top is decorated with pairs of slanting lines alternating with a thicker pointed line (perhaps in imitation of gadrooning). The shields are painted with the arms of the City of London, and the cherub's heads are outlined in blue with yellow wings. The foliage on the corners is outlined in blue. On the base there is a large blue X . object type: tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue and yellow title: salt NOTES ----- type: history note value: Mr Stoner, King Street, St James’s, London from whom purchased probably for £4.10s in 1902 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/71958 SUBJECTS ------------------- coat-of-arms coat-of-arms TECHNIQUES ---------- buff earthenware, moulded, tin-glazed yellowish-white, and painted in blue with a little yellow press-moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- tin-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: English delftware DATING ------ creation date: 1630 - 1640 creation date earliest: 1630 creation date latest: 1640 culture: 17th Century, second quarter# culture: Charles I CREATORS -------- maker: Pickleherring Pottery maker: Montague Close Pottery DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 9.8 dimension: Length units: cm value: 13 dimension: Width units: cm value: 9.4 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Delftware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Delftware. The Tin-glazed Earthenware of the British Isles. A Catalogue of the Collection in the Victoria and Albert Museum Important English Pottery, The Harriet Carlton Goldweitz Collection The Longridge Collection of English Slipware and Delftware, Volume 2, Delftware English & Irish Delftware 1570-1840 --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1419_1928_20_281_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 627 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/mid_C_1419_1928_20_281_29.jpg height: 606 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1419_1928_20_281_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 627 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/preview_C_1419_1928_20_281_29.jpg height: 303 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1419_1928_20_282_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 585 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/mid_C_1419_1928_20_282_29.jpg height: 650 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1419_1928_20_282_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 585 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/preview_C_1419_1928_20_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1419_1928_20_283_29.jpg height: 531 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/mid_C_1419_1928_20_283_29.jpg height: 349 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1419_1928_20_283_29.jpg height: 531 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/preview_C_1419_1928_20_283_29.jpg height: 175 pixels width: 250 pixels