IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 73034 accession number: C.2036-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 21 February 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Grey stoneware, thrown, with applied moulded decoration partly picked out in cobalt- blue under salt-glaze. The cylindrical jar has turned bands around its base and top, and a projecting rim at the top. On the front is a rectangular cartouche surrounded by an elaborate Mannerist style frame comprising scrolls, strapwork, and architectural elements, partly picked out in cobalt-blue. Within it is the raised inscription, '1591/'EERT.GOT./BOVEN.AL/IEM' (1591 HONOUR GOD ABOVE ALL and the potter's initials). object type: grey salt-glazed stoneware with relief decoration painted in blue. On the front is an elaborate frame enclosing an inscription in relief, '1591/'EERT.GOT./ BOVEN. AL/IEM' (1591/HONOUR GOD ABOVE ALL/ potter's initials) title: pharmacy jar NOTES ----- type: history note value: Bought in Andover many years earlier by John Bowden, Wardour Street, London, from whom bought on 31 May 1894 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/73034 PEOPLE ------------------- Bowden, John SUBJECTS ------------------- pharmacy TECHNIQUES ---------- throwing (pottery technique) CATEGORIES ------ category: stoneware category: salt-glazed stoneware category: German stoneware DATING ------ creation date: 1591 - 1591 creation date earliest: 1591 creation date latest: 1591 culture: 16th Century, Late CREATORS -------- maker: Emens, Jan DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 16.3 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Jan Emens: Raerens Meistertöpfer German Stoneware 1200-1900 Archaeology and Cultural History Duits steengoed/German stoneware --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/C_2036_1928.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/mid_C_2036_1928.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/C_2036_1928.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/preview_C_2036_1928.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels