IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 72843 accession number: C.1909 & A-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 30 September 2025 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Red earthenware, thrown; the bowl with applied handles, and the cover with applied moulded and hand modelled finial, coated overall with cream slip, and painted in reddish-brown slip, and blue, green, and yellow and manganese-brown under lead-glaze. The inside of the bowl, and underside of the cover has incised and painted decoration. The bowl has deep curved sides, with an imitation rope handle on opposing sides, and a high foot with an edging of small balls of clay. The cover is domed with narrow border, and is decorated on top with four double arches radiating from a finial in the form of a bird bath with a bird perching in it. The exteriors of the bowl and cover are decorated with scattered flowerheads comprising spots of red-brown slip with blue spots in the middle, and with green, yellow and brown bands round the edges. Inside the bowl there is an incised and painted bull flanked by plants, and below the rim, wide green and yellow bands and a narrow brown band. The underside of the cover has a motif formed by tulip stems radiating from an eight-petalled flower.. The scrolls and bird bath on the cover are painted in yellow and green and blue, and the bird is mainly yellow with bluish-green wings outlined in manganese-brown, and a beak of that colour. object type: earthenware soup tureen and cover with a bird finial, coated in cream slip and decorated in reddish-brown slip and blue, green, yellow and manganese-purple under lead-glaze title: soup tureen NOTES ----- type: history note value: E. Calame, Rue du Grand Chêne, Lausanne from whom purchased for 9 francs on August 23 1912 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/72843 SUBJECTS ------------------- dining bird bird TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware category: slipware DATING ------ creation date: 1800 - 1810 creation date earliest: 1800 creation date latest: 1810 culture: 19th Century, Early CREATORS -------- maker: Workshop 3 DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 26.5 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_1909_20_26_20a_1928_1_201604_amt49_ce.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 775 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/mid_C_1909_20_26_20a_1928_1_201604_amt49_ce.jpg height: 661 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/C_1909_20_26_20a_1928_1_201604_amt49_ce.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 775 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/preview_C_1909_20_26_20a_1928_1_201604_amt49_ce.jpg height: 330 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/C_1909_20_26_20a_1928_2_201604_amt49_ce.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 781 pixels surrogate: 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