IDENTIFIERS
-----------
id:	73327
accession number:	C.2306-1928

DATE AUDIT
----------
created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Monday 19 July 2021

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
----------------
object type: Pale red earthenware, tin-glazed overall and painted in two shades of blue with black outlines. The globular top is hollow and has a ventilation hole at top centre. It is supported on a circular stepped and domed foot rising into a short stem with an anulet at its junction with the globe. The top of the globe is painted with two concentric circles around the ventilation hole, a band of semi-circular motifs, and another narrow circle. The rest of the globe is painted with two arrangements of stylized flowers and foliage, one of which has a bird perching on the right and another on the left. The anulet is blue and has two horizontal bands below it. The top of the foot is decorated with a border of alternating V and petal shapes with two narrow bands beyond them.
object type: tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue and black with birds, flowers and foliage
title:	wig stand

NOTES
-----
type: history note
value: Gouy et fils, 56, rue Beauvoisine, Rouen, from whom purchased for 40 francs on 14 January 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/73327


SUBJECTS
-------------------
flower
bird
flower
bird



TECHNIQUES
----------
throwing (pottery technique)

CATEGORIES
------
category: tin-glazed earthenware
category: French faïence

DATING
------
creation date:	1650 - 1700
creation date earliest:	1650
creation date latest:	1700
culture:	17th Century, second half#
culture:	Louis XIV (1638-1715)

CREATORS
--------
maker: Nevers

DIMENSIONS
----------
dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 17



CITATIONS
--------
Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge
Christie's Pictorial History of European Pottery
Continental and British Ceramics
---
IMAGES

surrogate: large
format: jpeg
location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/C_2306_1928.jpg
height: 740 pixels
width: 570 pixels

surrogate: mid
format: jpeg
location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/mid_C_2306_1928.jpg
height: 649 pixels
width: 500 pixels

surrogate: original
format: jpeg
location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/C_2306_1928.jpg
height: 740 pixels
width: 570 pixels

surrogate: preview
format: jpeg
location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/preview_C_2306_1928.jpg
height: 325 pixels
width: 250 pixels