IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 72277 accession number: C.1594-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 30 April 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Buff earthenware, tin-glazed, and decorated with a powdered manganese ground and painting in blue. Rectangular with recessed top and base. The top has a central square aperture flanked by groups of six small circular holes. The sides are decorated with two circular reserves and the ends with one, all painted in blue with sprays of flowers. The top has two reserves in the shape of carnations outlined in blue, and a border round the central aperture. object type: tin-glazed earthenware with a powdered manganese ground and circular reserves painted in blue with flowers. title: flower brick NOTES ----- type: history note value: Not known before 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/72277 TECHNIQUES ---------- buff earthenware, probably slab-built, tin-glazed and decorated with a powdered manganese ground, and painting in blue tin-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: English delftware DATING ------ creation date: 1740 - 1750 creation date earliest: 1740 creation date latest: 1750 culture: 18th Century, Mid culture: George II CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified Bristol pottery DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Depth units: cm value: 7.0 dimension: Height units: cm value: 8.2 dimension: Width units: cm value: 14.7 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Curious Variations on Ceramic Themes, Geometrical and Zoomorphic Forms 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/aa37/c_1594_1928_1_201206_mfj22_dc2.jpg height: 768 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/mid_c_1594_1928_1_201206_mfj22_dc2.jpg height: 375 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/c_1594_1928_1_201206_mfj22_dc2.jpg height: 768 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/preview_c_1594_1928_1_201206_mfj22_dc2.jpg height: 188 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/c_1594_1928_2_201206_mfj22_dc2.jpg height: 765 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/mid_c_1594_1928_2_201206_mfj22_dc2.jpg height: 374 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/c_1594_1928_2_201206_mfj22_dc2.jpg height: 765 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/preview_c_1594_1928_2_201206_mfj22_dc2.jpg height: 187 pixels width: 250 pixels