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Scent bottle. Cream earthenware with transparent, yellowish glaze, transfer-printed onglaze in black and painted in blue, green and light brown enamel colours. On the front a view of the Fitzwilliam Museum with below 'FITZWILLIAM MUSEUM.CAMBRIDGE'; on the back 'FRAGRANT/DEVON/VIOLETS'.
Height: 8.7 cm
Width: 6.9 cm
Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.
Method of acquisition: Given (1985) by Rookes, Frank
Early 20th century
Circa
1920
CE
-
1930
CE
Decoration composed of ceramic printing colour ( black) enamels ( blue, green, light brown)
Lead-glazing : Cream earthenware with transparent, yellowish glaze, transfer-printed onglaze in black and painted in blue, green and light brown enamel colours.
Accession number: C.28-1985
Primary reference Number: 74101
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2022) "Scent bottle" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/74101 Accessed: 2022-12-03 07:02:06
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University of Cambridge}}
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Accession Number: E.GA.2921.1943
Accession Number: C.3157 & A-1928
Accession Number: E.GA.4573.1943
Accession Number: E.GA.2919.1943
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