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Production: Unidentified Delft Pottery
Tin-glazed earthenware birdcage painted in blue and yellow with landscapes, and having two containers for seed and water on the outside, and inside a parrot on a perch
Buff earthenware tin-glazed and painted in blue and yellow, Circular, with six vertical shafts which rise above the top of the cage and end upwards in small castellated turrets; the bars arch inwards at the top and support a dome with a larger castellated turret in the middle. Round the base, and half-way up, are wide bands, painted in blue between the shafts with small landscapes with peasants skating and otherwise engaged, windmills, cattle and wherries.The shafts are painted with twining stems in blue and yellow. At one side is a door. Small receptacles for seeds and water, each in the form of a castellated turret painted in blue with cattle in a landscape, are inserted through openings on opposite sides of the cage. A chain hanging from the top inside supports a ring, on which is perched a uyellow and purple parrot.
History note: Mr Mossel who, with his partner, was trading under the name of ‘Simpson’ at Little Turnstile, Holborn, from whom bought in November 1900, for £15.0.0. by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher FRS, Trinity College Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher
Height: 44 cm
Width: 36 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, Early#
Circa
1700
CE
-
1730
CE
Decoration composed of high-temperature colour ( blue and yellow)
Tin-glazing : Tin-glazed earthenware pained in blue and yellow
Accession number: C.2649-1928
Primary reference Number: 73850
Old object number: 1145
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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