These images are provided for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons License (BY-NC-ND). To license a high resolution version, please contact our image library who will discuss fees, terms and waivers.
Download this imageCreative commons explained - what it means, how you can use our's and other people's content.
Production: Unknown
Fritware painted in polychrome under a colourless glaze
Fritware, mould made, painted with red slip, blue, green and black under a colourless, crazed and pitted glaze
Shape: straight, cylindrical body, with plain rim and sitting on a foot ring. A flat, angular handle fixed along the length of the body.
Exterior: below the rim and above the foot ring a frieze of half rosettes with red central dots are reserved in blue. On the body, floral sprays of red or blue flowers are interspersed with red and blue heart shaped arabesque and green or blue quatre-foils. Blue lines are painted on the handle. Glaze, which is crazed, covers the surface except for the rim of the foot ring.
Interior: covered with a pitted glaze but otherwise undecorated.
History note: Joseph Dixon; sold Christie's, 17 March 1911, lot 60 (second part). Sold for 23 guineas
Given by The Friends of The Fitzwilliam Museum
Height: 20.4 cm
Weight: 580 g
Width: 15 cm
Method of acquisition: Given (1911-03-27) by The Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum
16th Century, Late
Circa
1570
-
Circa
1585
Floral style
Exterior
composed of
painting underglaze
( red slip, blue, green and black)
Base
Diameter 10.2 cm
Rim
Diameter 10.9 cm
colourless, crazed and pitted, covers the surface except for the rim of the foot ring
Glaze
Fritware
Moulding
: Fritware, mould made, painted with red slip, blue, green and black under a colourless, crazed and pitted glaze
Glazing (coating)
Inscription present: square paper label with serrations on the lower and left hand edge
Accession number: C.31-1911
Primary reference Number: 74396
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 (2024) "Tankard" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/74396 Accessed: 2024-12-26 21:03:30
To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
{{cite web|url=https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/74396
|title=Tankard
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2024-12-26 21:03:30|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
To call these data via our API (remember this needs to be authenticated) you can use this code snippet:
https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/api/v1/objects/object-74396
To use this as a simple code embed, copy this string:
<div class="text-center">
<figure class="figure">
<img src="https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa16/C_31_1911_281_29.jpg"
alt="Tankard"
class="img-fluid" />
<figcaption class="figure-caption text-info">Tankard</figcaption>
</figure>
</div>
Updates about future exhibitions and displays, family activities, virtual events & news. You'll be the first to know...
