IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 72124 accession number: C.1513 & A-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 30 April 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Buff earthenware, tin-glazed and painted and sponged in blue. The pot has a bulbous body with a short sloping neck, an applied tubular spout, and two strap handles which are rounded on the inside and concave on the outside. The domed cover has a narrow flange round the edge, and a mushroom-shaped finial. The front is decorated on either side of the spout with a stout putto holding an arrow standing beside a sponged tree and plants, and with schematic birds and clouds above. On the back there is a central putto between two trees and plants, two flying putti holding arrows, a large insect, and numerous schematic birds and clouds. The neck is encircled by a border of ju-i scrolls with two horizontal lines above and below. The spout has short strokes on the sides, and horizontal strokes interrupted by two circles on the front. The handles have a line down each side, and horizontal stripes interrupted by two ellipses on the back. The cover is decorated with three flying putti, three sponged trees, and plants. object type: tin-glazed earthenware painted and sponged in blue with putti, insects and trees title: posset pot NOTES ----- type: history note value: Said by the vendor to have come from Bromley Kent; Mr F.C. Fripp (watchmaker and jeweller) 1 Beach Street, Dover, who sold it for £3 to 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/72124 SUBJECTS ------------------- putto tree insect putto tree insect TECHNIQUES ---------- tin-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: English delftware DATING ------ creation date: 1710 - 1720 creation date earliest: 1710 creation date latest: 1720 culture: 18th Century, Early culture: Queen Anne CREATORS -------- maker: unidentified London pottery maker: Unidentified Bristol pottery maker: Brislington Pottery DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 22.2 dimension: Width units: cm value: 24.5 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Delftware in the Fitzwilliam Museum --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1513_20_26_20A_1928_20_281_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 605 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/mid_C_1513_20_26_20A_1928_20_281_29.jpg height: 628 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1513_20_26_20A_1928_20_281_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 605 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/preview_C_1513_20_26_20A_1928_20_281_29.jpg height: 314 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1513_20_26_20A_1928_20_283_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 581 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/mid_C_1513_20_26_20A_1928_20_283_29.jpg height: 654 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1513_20_26_20A_1928_20_283_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 581 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/preview_C_1513_20_26_20A_1928_20_283_29.jpg height: 327 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1513_20_26_20A_1928_20_282_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 587 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/mid_C_1513_20_26_20A_1928_20_282_29.jpg height: 647 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1513_20_26_20A_1928_20_282_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 587 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/preview_C_1513_20_26_20A_1928_20_282_29.jpg height: 324 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1513_20_26_20A_1928_20_284_29.jpg height: 686 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/mid_C_1513_20_26_20A_1928_20_284_29.jpg height: 451 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1513_20_26_20A_1928_20_284_29.jpg height: 686 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/preview_C_1513_20_26_20A_1928_20_284_29.jpg height: 226 pixels width: 250 pixels