IDENTIFIERS
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id:	73406
accession number:	C.2365 & A-1928

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Monday 1 December 2025

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Earthenware,  tin-glazed overall, and painted naturalistically in yellow, two shades of green, and brown enamels. The  oval melon is growing on a tubular stalk with three large leaves, one of which is under the fruit, and has a slight projection in the middle serving as a foot.
object type: tin-glazed and painted earthenware in the form of a melon on a stem with three leaves three leaves
title:	box

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Miss Kingsland, Croydon, from whom bought  in February 1900 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, 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/73406


SUBJECTS
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dining
melon
melon



TECHNIQUES
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buff earthenware, pressmoulded, hand modelled, tin-glazed, and painted in yellow, two shades of green, and brown enamels
press moulding

CATEGORIES
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category: tin-glazed earthenware
category: French faïence

DATING
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creation date:	1748 - 1754
creation date earliest:	1748
creation date latest:	1754
culture:	18th Century, Mid
culture:	Paul Hannong Period

CREATORS
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maker: Hannong factory

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Length
units: cm
value: 21.5

dimension: Width
value: 17.9

value: 8.8



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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