IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 73340 accession number: C.2315-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 20 May 2025 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Earthenware, slab-built, with hand modelled details, pierced, tin-glazed, and painted in blue, green, yellow, and brownish-yellow; the base is unglazed. Rectangular with a high-pitched roof decorated along its ridge with ten balls at intervals. In the middle there is a large tower within the building , and at either end at the back, a smaller tower, all with conical rooves. On either side of the central tower there is a triple ball finial on the ridge. There are two dormers in the roof at the front, and the front and back walls are pierced by window openings: two with four panes in the back; and two with four panes and two with one pane at the front. Between them at the front is a tall rectangular opening with two arched doors which are open, so that you can see the arched opening at the bottom of the tower. There is a circular opening in both gable ends, and the small towers, and small rectangular openings in their back walls. The back of the roof is painted green, and the front in yellow with brownish-yellow tile outlines. The turrets are striped in blue, yellow and brownish-yellow. The front wall is checked in blue on the left and in blue and yellow on the right, and the insides of the doors are blue with green edges. The back wall is outlined in blue. The interior is undecorated except for a green area inside the door. The left gable end wall is decorated with a yellow tulip and blue leaves, and the right gable with a blue daisy with a yellow centre and blue leaves. object type: Tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue, green, yellow, and brownish-yellow title: model stable NOTES ----- type: history note value: Bought from Vaumousse at Rouen in April, 1901 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/73340 TECHNIQUES ---------- eathenware, slab built, with hand modelled balls, pierced, tin-glazed and painted in blue, green, yellow, and brownish-yellow slab building CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: French faïence DATING ------ creation date: 1700 - 1799 creation date earliest: 1700 creation date latest: 1799 culture: 18th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified Nevers factory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Depth units: cm value: 12.2 dimension: Height units: cm value: 24.5 dimension: Length units: cm value: 28 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Faïences françaises XVIe-XVIIIe siècles --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/C_2315_1928_281_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/mid_C_2315_1928_281_29.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/C_2315_1928_281_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/preview_C_2315_1928_281_29.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/C_2315_1928_282_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/mid_C_2315_1928_282_29.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/C_2315_1928_282_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/preview_C_2315_1928_282_29.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels