IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 72126 accession number: C.1514 & A-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 25 February 2020 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 sucking spout, and two S-shaped handles which are flat inside and rounded on the outide. The slightly domed cover has a narrow flange round the edge and a mushroom-shaped finial. The front is decorated on each side of the spout with a sponged tree, and a bird standing on a rock with small plants sprouting from it. The back is decorated with one bird standing on rocks with plants between two sponged trees. Below there is a broad blue horizontal band between pairs of narrow bands, and round the neck, a broad blue band with two narrow below and one above. The spout and handle are striped horizontally. The cover is decorated with one sponged tree and a bird standing amidst rocks sprouting small plants. There are two bands round the base of the finial and one further out, and two more on the flange round the outer edge. The finial has a central spot, and radiating vertical lines crossed by three horizontal bands. object type: tin-glazed earthenware painted and sponged in blue with birds, trees, and plants title: posset pot NOTES ----- type: history note value: Mr Wake, Fritchley, Derbyshire; his catalogue, no. 338 of June 1902, item 112; bought for £1.10s. 0d. 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/72126 SUBJECTS ------------------- bird tree bird tree 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: 16.5 dimension: Width units: cm value: 18.2 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: A Loan Exhibition of Pottery and Porcelain held in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge 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_1514_20_26_20A_1928_20_281_29.jpg height: 547 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/mid_C_1514_20_26_20A_1928_20_281_29.jpg height: 360 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1514_20_26_20A_1928_20_281_29.jpg height: 547 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/preview_C_1514_20_26_20A_1928_20_281_29.jpg height: 180 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1514_20_26_20A_1928_20_282_29.jpg height: 543 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/mid_C_1514_20_26_20A_1928_20_282_29.jpg height: 357 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1514_20_26_20A_1928_20_282_29.jpg height: 543 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/preview_C_1514_20_26_20A_1928_20_282_29.jpg height: 179 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1514_20_26_20A_1928_20_283_29.jpg height: 543 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/mid_C_1514_20_26_20A_1928_20_283_29.jpg height: 357 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1514_20_26_20A_1928_20_283_29.jpg height: 543 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/preview_C_1514_20_26_20A_1928_20_283_29.jpg height: 179 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1514_20_26_20A_1928_20_284_29.jpg height: 725 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/mid_C_1514_20_26_20A_1928_20_284_29.jpg height: 477 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1514_20_26_20A_1928_20_284_29.jpg height: 725 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/preview_C_1514_20_26_20A_1928_20_284_29.jpg height: 238 pixels width: 249 pixels