IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 73377 accession number: C.2340-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 22 April 2025 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Buff earthenware, thrown, tin-glazed dark blue and randomly splashed with white, except for the base. The vase is of double-gourd shape with a slender neck which flares slightly towards its rim, and stands on a disk base. It is decorated overall with splashes of white glaze. object type: earthenware vase of double gourd shape, tin-glazed dark blue and randomly splashed with white title: bottle NOTES ----- type: history note value: Roger Roe’s shop, Cambridge, where bought on 5 March 1924 for £1.0.0 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/73377 TECHNIQUES ---------- throwing (pottery technique) CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: French faïence category: bleu de Nevers DATING ------ creation date: 1680 - 1715 creation date earliest: 1680 creation date latest: 1715 culture: 17th Century, Late or 18th Century, Early culture: Louis XIV (1638-1715) CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified Nevers factory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 9 dimension: Height units: cm value: 175 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Catalogue des Céramiques du Palais des Beaux-Arts de Lille --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/C_2340_1928.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/mid_C_2340_1928.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/C_2340_1928.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/preview_C_2340_1928.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels