IDENTIFIERS
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id:	73631
accession number:	C.2516-1928

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Tuesday 1 August 2017

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Pale buff earthenware, tin-glazed, and painted in blue. The hand-warmer or flask is in the shape of a closed book with two clasps.  It has a small round hole in the upper left corner of one cover. When the book is stood on end, it has a rectangular aperture in the top edge which extends down to the bottom inside the spine, which has four horizontal ridges its exterior.  The covers are painted overall withscattered  stylized flowers and foliage, possibly in Oriental style, all rather blurred. The edges of the pages are sponged and on the fore-edge have an inscription in darker blue: M  17: 09  D
object type: tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue with stylized flowers
title:	hand-warmer

NOTES
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type: history note
value: unknown before 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/73631





TECHNIQUES
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pale buff earthenwarte, tin-glazed and painted in blue
slab-building
TECHNIQUES
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tin-glazing

CATEGORIES
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category: tin-glazed earthenware
category: Delftware

DATING
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creation date:	1709 - 1709
creation date earliest:	1709
creation date latest:	1709

CREATORS
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maker: Unidentified Delft factory

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Depth
units: cm
value: 3

dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 14.5

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 9.8



CITATIONS
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Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge
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