IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 72430 accession number: C.1675-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 25 February 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Buff earthenware, slab-built and pierced, tin-glazed bluish-white and painted in blue, green, and yellow. Rectangular with a recessed top pierced by a large circular central hole with nine smaller holes on each side. The lower edge is cut into a cupid's bow shape on the two long sides, and a simple curve on the ends, to produce four corner feet. The recessed top is painted blue overall. The two long sides are decorated with bamboo, flowering plants and grasses, and the short sides with a large flower with red edged petals, leaves, and grasses. object type: tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue, green, yellow, and red with flowering plants and grasses title: flower brick NOTES ----- type: history note value: Bought at a sale held at the Vicarage, Haslingfield (Cambs) on 3 June 1898 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/72430 TECHNIQUES ---------- buff earthenware, slab-built and pierced, tin-glazed bluish-white, and painted in blue, green, yellow, and a little red high-temperature (metallic oxide) colours slab-building TECHNIQUES ---------- tin-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: English delftware DATING ------ creation date: 1750 - 1760 creation date earliest: 1750 creation date latest: 1760 culture: 18th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified Liverpool pottery DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 6.5 dimension: Length units: cm value: 12.5 dimension: Width units: cm value: 5.4 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_1675_1928.jpg height: 568 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/mid_C_1675_1928.jpg height: 374 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1675_1928.jpg height: 568 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/preview_C_1675_1928.jpg height: 187 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa10/C_1675_1928_281_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa10/mid_C_1675_1928_281_29.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa10/C_1675_1928_281_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa10/preview_C_1675_1928_281_29.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa10/C_1675_1928_285_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa10/mid_C_1675_1928_285_29.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa10/C_1675_1928_285_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa10/preview_C_1675_1928_285_29.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels