IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 72851 accession number: C.1913 & A-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 4 November 2025 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Pale red earthenware, thrown, with applied moulded handles and knob, coated with cream slip internally and brown slip externally, with marbled, and incised and painted decoration. The tureen has deep curved sides with a projecting horizontal band level with the shell-shaped horizontal handles. The cover is domed with a narrow border, and a flange underneath which fits inside the bowl. The knob is in the form of a low mushroom. The exterior is coated with brown slip marbled in cream slip and splashes of green. The interior of the bowl is decorated with rouletting round the upper edge and in the base has an incised flowering plant painted in green, yellow and brown slip, below which is incised the date, '1780'. The underside of the cover is decorated with three concentric circles of rouletting and in the middle has an incised floral spray painted in green and yellow and brown. The underside of the rim and outer edge of the flange are rouletted overall. title: porringer NOTES ----- type: history note value: Mrs Born-Straub, Thun, from whom purchased in Sept 1903 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/72851 SUBJECTS ------------------- dining flowering plant flowering plant CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware category: slipware category: Swiss slipware DATING ------ creation date: 1780 - 1780 creation date earliest: 1780 creation date latest: 1780 culture: 18th Century, Late CREATORS -------- maker: unidentified Langnau pottery DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 12 dimension: Width units: cm value: 20.3 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_1913_20_26_20a_1928_2_201603_amt49_ce.jpg height: 884 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/mid_C_1913_20_26_20a_1928_2_201603_amt49_ce.jpg height: 432 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/C_1913_20_26_20a_1928_2_201603_amt49_ce.jpg height: 884 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/preview_C_1913_20_26_20a_1928_2_201603_amt49_ce.jpg height: 216 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa37/C_1913_20_26_20a_1928_3_201603_amt49_ce.jpg height: 714 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: 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