IDENTIFIERS
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id:	73386
accession number:	C.2347-1928

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Tuesday 27 May 2025

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue, green, yellow, orange, brown, and manganese-purple. Moulded in the form of a book with a cylindrical mouth at the top close to the spine, and four horizontal projections on the binding of the spine. The fore edge is painted yellow with orange stripes to indicate the pages. The spine is inscribed  'LAViE DU/rEVErENT/PEre.dot.BOuGrE/POrTiE[R]/ DU BOrdeL/de ST.e catheriNe/ a LYON/ 1789' in manganese-purple divided by orange striped yellow bands over the horizontal divisions of the binding. The right side is painted in polychrome with a seated squirrel winding wool into a ball from a stand, with clouds and birds overhead. The other side has two rabbits indulging in pornographic play, with clouds and birds overhead. On both sides the scene is framed by yellow and an orange lines.
object type: tin-glazed earthenware flask in the form of a book with polychrome decoration. Inscribed on the spine 'LAViE DU/rEVErENT/PEre.dot.BOuGrE/POrTiE/ DU BOrdeL/de ST.e catheriNe/ a LYON/ 1789' and painted on one side with a squirrel winding wool, and on the other with a pornographic rabbit scene.
title:	book flask

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Walter Cole Plowright, Swaffham, Norfolk (a collection formed during the last forty years); sold at Puttick & Simpson’s, London, 12 December 1905, lot.61; bought  for £1.10.0. by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge, who recorded the former owner's name as Cole Plow-Wright.


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
collection:	J. W. L. Glaisher
creditline: Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/73386

PEOPLE
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Plowright, Walter Cole

SUBJECTS
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drinking
squirrel
rabbit
squirrel
rabbit



TECHNIQUES
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tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue, yellowish-green, yellow, orange, brown, and manganese-purple
moulding

CATEGORIES
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category: tin-glazed earthenware
category: French faïence

DATING
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creation date:	1789 - 1789
creation date earliest:	1789
creation date latest:	1789
culture:	18th Century, Late

CREATORS
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maker: Unidentified

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Depth
units: cm
value: 5

dimension: Height
value: 17.5

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 9.7



EXHIBITIONS HISTORY
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title:	Curious Variations on Ceramic Themes, Geometrical and Zoomorphic Forms
CITATIONS
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Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge
Céramiques Révolutionnaires
Faïences et Métiers, Nevers et son rayonnement du 17ème au 19ème siècle
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