IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 75029 accession number: C.42-1911 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Friday 4 December 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: fritware, mould made painted in blue and with black outlines under a colourless glaze Shape: rectangular body narrowing via a shoulder carination to a straight neck, silver mount over the neck with silver lid ending in a finial. Exterior: on each face of the body, within a bracketed panel, two confronted cranes reserved in blue on a background of cloud scrolls and flower heads. On the shoulder a bracketed line below a frieze of scrolling leaves and flower heads reserved in blue. Silver neck terminates in lappets; otherwise neck and lid are undecorated. Glaze runs unevenly over the lowest sections of the body and only covers the corners of the underside of the base. Interior: not visible object type: fritware painted in blue and black under a colourless glaze title: bottle NOTES ----- type: history note value: From the Joseph Dixon Collection, sold at Christie’s, 16th-17th March, 1911, lot 132 LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/75029 SUBJECTS ------------------- cranes cranes TECHNIQUES ---------- fritware, mould made, painted in blue and with black outlines under a colourless glaze moulding CATEGORIES ------ category: fritware (stonepaste) DATING ------ creation date: 1640 - 1665 creation date earliest: 1640 creation date latest: 1665 culture: 17th Century, Mid# CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 17.3 dimension: Weight units: g value: 332 dimension: Width units: cm value: 7.8 CITATIONS -------- The Collection of Rhodian, Damascus, Persian and Hispano-Mauro Faience of the Late Joseph Dixon, Esq. Ceramics Persia and China. Safavid Blue and White Ceramics in the Victoria and Albert Museum 1501-1738 --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa16/C_42_1911_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa16/mid_C_42_1911_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa16/C_42_1911_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa16/preview_C_42_1911_281_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa16/C_42_1911_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa16/mid_C_42_1911_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa16/C_42_1911_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa16/preview_C_42_1911_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels