IDENTIFIERS
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id:	72129
accession number:	C.1516-1928

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Tuesday 16 February 2021

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Buff earthenware, coated with bluish-white, shiny tin-glaze, and painted in blue. Circular with deep curved sides, and a wide flange with a depression for a soap ball, and a D-shaped area cut out.  The inside is decorated with two concentric circles enclosing implements associated with barbers: a comb; locks of hair, a folding cut-throat razor, a shaving brush, a soap-ball and two lancets (?). Also cross-bones indicative of the barber's roll as a surgeon. The flange is decorated with two formal borders, perhaps stylized leaves.
object type: tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue with barber's implements
title:	barber's basin

NOTES
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type: history note
value: William Fuller Maitland collection, Stansted Hall, Stansted, Essex; Stansted Hall sale, September 1922; bought by Mr J. Wordingham, dealer, Hope House, Coram Road, Norwich, from whom purchased in Cambridge for £4 on 21 November 1922 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge.


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
collection:	J. W. L. Glaisher
creditline: Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/72129





TECHNIQUES
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buff earthenware, probably thrown or thrown over mould, coated in bluish-white, very shiny tin-glaze, and painted in blue
tin-glazing

CATEGORIES
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category: tin-glazed earthenware
category: English delftware

DATING
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creation date:	1760 - 1765
creation date earliest:	1760
creation date latest:	1765
culture:	18th Century, third quarter#
culture:	George III

CREATORS
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maker: Temple Back Pottery

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Diameter
units: cm
value: 26.3

dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 7.2



CITATIONS
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Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge
Delftware in the Fitzwilliam Museum
Distinguished American Funiture and Folk Art, the Collection of Susan and Mark Laracy
English pottery; English porcelain
Pottery Kiln Waste from Temple Back, Bristol
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