IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 73079 accession number: C.2077-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 30 April 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Greyish-white stoneware, thrown, and turned, with applied moulded relief decoration in a warmer shade of white clay, and salt-glaze; pewter mounts, thumbpiece, and cover. The cylindrical tankard has two bands of horizontal reeding with a pewter band between them at the top and bottom of the sides, and a loop handle. The main field is decorated with two plants with five stylized blooms, between which is a crown over two shields bearing the arms of Augustus II as King of Poland and Elector of Saxony (1697-1733), enclosed by palms. Above and below are rows of flower heads. Attached to the top of a handle is a pewter mount joined by a hinge to a mount round the rim, the ball-shaped thumbpiece, and the cover, which has a 'pie crust' edge, and is flat on top. In the centre of the underside is a pewterer's mark of a hand and the initials B L/G. The mount round the foot has alternate scallops and points at the top, and has indentations round the edge. object type: greyish-white salt-glazed stoneware with applied relief decoration in a different shade of white, the crowned arms of Augustus II as King of Poland and Elector of Saxony (1697-1733); pewter mounts, thumbpiece, and cover. title: tankard NOTES ----- type: history note value: Marc Louis Emmanuel Solon (1835-1913); sold by Charles Butters, Hanley, 26-28 November 1912, Catalogue of the Collection of Pottery & Porcelain in the Collection of L.M. Solon, lot 440; Mr Richards, dealer, Nottingham; sold for £14 on 3 August 1918 to 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/73079 PEOPLE ------------------- Solon, Louis-Marc-Emmanuel SUBJECTS ------------------- drinking coat-of-arms crown flower coat-of-arms crown flower CATEGORIES ------ category: stoneware category: salt-glazed stoneware category: German stoneware DATING ------ creation date: 1725 - 1733 creation date earliest: 1725 creation date latest: 1733 culture: 18th Century, Early culture: Augustus II (1670-1733) CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified Altenburg pottery DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 18.7 dimension: Height units: cm value: 24.1 dimension: Width units: cm value: 14.8 CITATIONS -------- The Ancient Art of Stoneware of the Low Countries and Germany; or Grés de Flandres & Steinzeug; its principal varieties and the places where it was manufactured during the XVIth and XVIIth centuries, 2 vols. Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Deutsches Steinzeug der Renaissance-und Barockzeit German Stoneware 1200-1900 Archaeology and Cultural History --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/C_2077_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_2077_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_2077_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_2077_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_2077_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_2077_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_2077_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_2077_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_2077_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_2077_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_2077_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_2077_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_2077_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_2077_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_2077_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_2077_1928_284_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels