IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 72825 accession number: C.1898-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 18 November 2025 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Brown earthenware coated in cream slip, with decoration incised through it and painted in green, yellow, and brown under lead-glaze. The plate is circular with a narrow, sloping rim, a concave border, and shallow well with curved sides, In the middle is a circular medallion bordered by a band of rouletting enclosing a stylized tulip plant. Above it are the adjacent coats-of-arms of a couple below a crown. The rest of the well is decorated with stylized foliage and tulips painted in green, dark yellow and brown. On the border is an inscription: 'Meÿster Dursch Fÿxtter Hÿrtt zu Sohllen Thurn. Ich Bÿn eÿn fanner wohll zu Muth der wennÿg Gwÿntt und vÿhll mehr Thutt. Gott mÿtt Uns. Ao. 1729 ÿahr '(Master Dursch Fÿxtter Hÿftt to Sohllen Thurn. I am an ensign stout of heart who takes small pay and stands fast on guard. God with us. Year 1729). Below it is a band of rouletting and above it, a row of interlacing lines enclosing alternately green and brown spots. On the reverse there are three indented concentric circles around the edge of the base and bands of rouletting round the rim. The base is decorated with a stylized tulip plant coloured in green, yellow, and brown, and the date 1729 on either side of a three-petalled flower at its summit, surrounded by a band of rouletting or chattering. The sides are encircled by six stems bearing tulips, leaves and tendrils, coloured green, yellow and brown, and there are bands of rouletting round the rim. object type: earthenware coated in cream slip, with incised decoration painted in green, yellow and brown under lead-glaze: a coat-of-arms, floral motifs and a circular inscription title: plate NOTES ----- type: history note value: Collection of Jacques Blumenthal (1829-1908), the musician; sold by Messrs Foster at 54 Pall Mall on Friday 19 December 1908, lot 60; sold to Mr Sutton of Eastbourne for about £4.4s. 0d.; bought from Mr Sutton for about £6.10s.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/72825 PEOPLE ------------------- Blumenthal, Joseph (1829-1908) TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware category: Swiss slipware category: sgraffito ware DATING ------ creation date: 1729 - 1729 creation date earliest: 1729 creation date latest: 1729 culture: 1720s CREATORS -------- maker: Herrmann, Christen DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 25 dimension: Height units: cm value: 3 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Keramik aus Langnau. Zur Geschichte der bedeutendsten Landhafnerei im Kanton Bern Kommentierter Katalog, 2 vols --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/C_1898_1928_1_201603_amt49_ce.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 843 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/mid_C_1898_1928_1_201603_amt49_ce.jpg height: 607 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/C_1898_1928_1_201603_amt49_ce.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 843 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/preview_C_1898_1928_1_201603_amt49_ce.jpg height: 304 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/C_1898_1928_2_201603_amt49_ce.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 853 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/mid_C_1898_1928_2_201603_amt49_ce.jpg height: 600 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/C_1898_1928_2_201603_amt49_ce.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 853 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/preview_C_1898_1928_2_201603_amt49_ce.jpg height: 300 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/502/615/large_C_1898_1928_1_201603_amt49_mas.jpg height: 1244 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/502/615/mid_C_1898_1928_1_201603_amt49_mas.jpg height: 607 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/C.1898-1928_1_201603_amt49_mas.tif surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/502/615/preview_C_1898_1928_1_201603_amt49_mas.jpg height: 304 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: zoom format: pyramid tiff location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/502/615/C_1898_1928_1_201603_amt49_mas.ptif height: 5313 pixels width: 4375 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/502/622/large_C_1898_1928_2_201603_amt49_mas.jpg height: 1229 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/502/622/mid_C_1898_1928_2_201603_amt49_mas.jpg height: 600 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/C.1898-1928_2_201603_amt49_mas.tif surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/502/622/preview_C_1898_1928_2_201603_amt49_mas.jpg height: 300 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: zoom format: pyramid tiff location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/502/622/C_1898_1928_2_201603_amt49_mas.ptif height: 5296 pixels width: 4413 pixels