IDENTIFIERS
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id:	74169
accession number:	C.2884 & A-1928

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Tuesday 17 October 2017

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Box and cover in the shape of a tortoise of tin-glazed earthenware painted naturalistically in shades of brown and yellow
title:	box

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Basle, where purchased 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/74169


SUBJECTS
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tortoise
tortoise



TECHNIQUES
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buff earthenware, moulded, tin-glazed and painted in pale olive-green, manganese-purple, and dark yellow
moulding
TECHNIQUES
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tin-glazing

CATEGORIES
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category: tin-glazed earthenware
category: German faience

DATING
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CREATORS
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maker: Höchst faience factory
maker: Schrezheim faience factory
maker: Durlach faience factory

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 9.0

dimension: Length
units: cm
value: 26.5



EXHIBITIONS HISTORY
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title:	Curious Variations on Ceramic Themes, Geometrical and Zoomorphic Forms
CITATIONS
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Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge
Museum Deutscher Fayencen in Schloss Höchstädt
Die Sammlung der Markgrafen und Grossherzöge von Baden
Fine British and European Ceramics and Glass
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