Wall cistern: C.1964-1928

Maker(s)

Potter: Unidentified

Entities

• Wall cistern

Categories

• Lead-glazed earthenware

Description

Red earthenware, with moulded decoration in relief covered with dark brown glaze: a man and woman embracing flanked by panels each with a crozier from the arms of Basle, a figure of a woman with a basket on her head, and three acorns

Red earthenware with applied moulded relief decoration, and two ring handles, covered overall with dark brown lead-glaze. The cistern is half octagonal in plan with a flat back. The two ends are applied with ring handles near the top. The wide central panel at the front has a spigot hole near the base, and above, a standing man and woman wearing seventeenth-century costume. On either side of them there are narrower slanting panels each decorated at the top with a crozier (the charge on the shield-of-arms of Basle), below that, a woman standing with a basket of fruit on her head, and at the bottom, three acorns. Incised roughly on the exterior of the back is the date '1763'.

Notes

History note: Madame Sattler, Basle, from whom purchased in October 1903 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge

Legal notes

Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr

Dating

18th Century, third quarter
Production date: dated AD 1763