IDENTIFIERS
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id:	73405
accession number:	C.2363 & A-1928

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Tuesday 5 August 2025

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Buff earthenware, moulded in two parts, tin-glazed, and painted in turquoise, green, pink, pale purple, pale brown, greyish brown, grey, and black enamels. The underside of the base has a circular ventilation hole at one end. The snail rests on an almond-shaped green base with a wavy edge, and is feeding on a spray of turquoise leaves on a twig. Its foot is coloured pale pink with tiny strokes of grey overall, and the shell is pale brown with greyish brown horizontal and slanting vertical lines. The circular domed cover, which forms the top of the snail's shell, has a knob in the shape of a purple convolvulus (?)  flower on a stem with two leaves. The shell area is pale pink with dark grey radiating bands and slanting vertical lines, and a few black ones at intervals. The snail's upper tentacles have been broken off, but its lower ones remain.
object type: tin-glazed earthenware painted in enamels
title:	box

NOTES
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type: history note
value: E. Wolter, 15,Sophien-strasse, Baden-Baden, from who  purchased on 16 September 1899, by Dr J.W./L. laisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge


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/73405


SUBJECTS
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snail
snail



CATEGORIES
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category: tin-glazed earthenware
category: French faïence

DATING
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creation date:	1760 - 1765
creation date earliest:	1760
creation date latest:	1765
culture:	18th Century, third quarter

CREATORS
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maker: Hannong factory

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 7.9



CITATIONS
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Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge
Faïences françaises XVIe-XVIIIe siècles
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