IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 72111 accession number: C.1506 & A-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 25 February 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Buff earthenware tin-glazed pale turquoise-green, and painted in blue. The pot has a bulbous body with a short straight neck a d stands on three small feet in the form of birds. On the front there is a sucking spout, and on either side a loop handle with a serpent on its back and spirals of clay on either side of the lower end. The domed cover has a flange round the edge, and two handles similar to those on the body flanking a ball-shaped knob surmouned by a small bird. The sides and cover are decorated with Chinese figures in oriental landscapes, and the knob with floral sprays. On the front, to viewer's left of the spout are the initials 'B/I.E' and on the right of it, the date '1687' object type: tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue with Chinese figures in a landscape title: posset pot NOTES ----- type: history note value: Private collection near Winchester; Messrs. Sargent and Fisher, Palmer Street, Westminster from whom purchased for £12 on 2 March 1906 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge. Lent to the Fitzwilliam Museum on either 2 or 4 November 1909 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/72111 PEOPLE ------------------- Chinaman SUBJECTS ------------------- landscape bird landscape bird TECHNIQUES ---------- tin-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: English delftware DATING ------ creation date: 1687 - 1687 creation date earliest: 1687 creation date latest: 1687 culture: 17th Century, Late CREATORS -------- maker: Brislington Pottery maker: unidentified London pottery DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 29.5 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Exhibition of Early English Earthenware CITATIONS -------- Illustrated Catalogue of Early English Earthenware Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge London Delftware Delftware in the Fitzwilliam Museum --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1506_20_26_20A_1928_20_281_29.jpg height: 570 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/mid_C_1506_20_26_20A_1928_20_281_29.jpg height: 375 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1506_20_26_20A_1928_20_281_29.jpg height: 570 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/preview_C_1506_20_26_20A_1928_20_281_29.jpg height: 188 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1506_20_26_20A_1928_20_282_29.jpg height: 570 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/mid_C_1506_20_26_20A_1928_20_282_29.jpg height: 375 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1506_20_26_20A_1928_20_282_29.jpg height: 570 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/preview_C_1506_20_26_20A_1928_20_282_29.jpg height: 188 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1506_20_26_20A_1928_20_283_29.jpg height: 570 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/mid_C_1506_20_26_20A_1928_20_283_29.jpg height: 375 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1506_20_26_20A_1928_20_283_29.jpg height: 570 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/preview_C_1506_20_26_20A_1928_20_283_29.jpg height: 188 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1506_20_26_20A_1928_20_284_29.jpg height: 710 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/mid_C_1506_20_26_20A_1928_20_284_29.jpg height: 467 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1506_20_26_20A_1928_20_284_29.jpg height: 710 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/preview_C_1506_20_26_20A_1928_20_284_29.jpg height: 234 pixels width: 250 pixels