IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 73075 accession number: C.2072-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 30 April 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Brown stoneware, thrown, with applied relief decoration, iron-brown wash, and salt glaze, painted in blue, green, yellow, red, flesh, white and black enamels. Cylindrical with a spreading base, incurved shoulders, and strap handle to which is attached a hinged pewter mount for the domed cover and its large ball thumb piece. The decoration on the sides is divided into four zones. On the widest in the midddle there is an oval medallion with a white merchant's mark 41 HB monogram on a blue ground, and on either side six of the Apostles with their emblems standing on greensward. Above is a white band with their names written in black Gothic script: from left to right, 'S. Petrus S. Andre: S. Jacob mai: S. Joh.. S. Phillippus. S. Bartholomeus. S. Thomas. S. Mattheus. S. Jacob minor. S. Simon: S. Judas tha: S. Matthi:'. Above between two blue horizontal bands is a band of blue and white interlacing ribbons with alternately red and yellow spots in the spaces. This is repeated below the Apostles with yellow spots in all the spaces. The spreading foot is encircled by a wavy white stem bearing yellow, red, and blue stylized fruits, against a green background. The back of the handle has an applied lion's mask with foliage issuing from is mouth and extending down to the junction with the body. The top of the pewter cover is engraved with three concentric circles in the middle, the initials 'I.G.W', and two concentric circles round the outer edge object type: brown salt-glazed stoneware decorated with reliefs of the Twelve Apostles, and horizontal border patterns title: tankard NOTES ----- type: history note value: Professor James Dewar (1842-1923); sold by Puttick and Simpson at his house in Scroope Terrace, Cambridge, 26-27 May 1924, day 1, part of lot 45; all bought for £16 by Stanley Woolston on behalf of 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/73075 PEOPLE ------------------- Dewar, James, Professor Apostles SUBJECTS ------------------- drinking TECHNIQUES ---------- thrown brown stoneware, with applied relief decoration, dark iron-brown wash, and salt-glaze, painted overglaze in blue, green, yellow red, brown, black, and white enamels throwing (pottery technique) CATEGORIES ------ category: stoneware category: salt-glazed stoneware category: German stoneware DATING ------ creation date: 1700 - 1710 creation date earliest: 1700 creation date latest: 1710 culture: 18th Century, Early CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified Creussen Pottery DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 23 dimension: Width value: 18 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Creussener Steinzeug aus dem Besitz der Kunstsammlungen der Veste Coburg German Stoneware 1200-1900 Archaeology and Cultural History --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/C_2072_1928_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/mid_C_2072_1928_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/C_2072_1928_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/preview_C_2072_1928_281_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/C_2072_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/mid_C_2072_1928_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/C_2072_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/preview_C_2072_1928_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/C_2072_1928_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/mid_C_2072_1928_283_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/C_2072_1928_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/preview_C_2072_1928_283_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/C_2072_1928_284_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/mid_C_2072_1928_284_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/C_2072_1928_284_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/preview_C_2072_1928_284_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels