IDENTIFIERS
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id:	75036
accession number:	C.42-1972

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Wednesday 15 July 2020

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Amphora shape on flared, conical foot with a narrow ribbed neck and everted rim. Two handles modelled as snakes, coil on the rim and curve down to meet the rounded shoulders. Painted in dark blue on a white ground with a frieze of putti playing on swags linked by two bearded masks below the handles. The frieze is bordered by Renaissance-style scrolling foliage and motifs, also on the neck and foot; the handles have a blue snake-skin pattern painted onto the cream clay. The underside has an unglazed foot-rim and a deep indentation into the stem.
object type: Cream earthenware vase, moulded with two modelled handles, transfer printed and painted in white and deep blue.
title:	vase

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Charles & Lavinia Handley-Read; according to label, purchased for £4.00, Portobello [Road, London?].


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
creditline: From the Charles & Lavinia Handley-Read Collection, bought from the Perceval Fund and the V & A grant-in-aid fund.

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/75036

PEOPLE
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Minton, Herbert
Campbell, Colin Minton
Arnoux, Leon




TECHNIQUES
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Moulded and modelled earthenware, transfer printed, glazed and painted with enamels.
moulding
TECHNIQUES
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glazing

CATEGORIES
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category: earthenware
category: lead-glazed earthenware
category: majolica ware

DATING
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creation date:	1864 - 1864
creation date earliest:	1864
creation date latest:	1864
culture:	Victorian

CREATORS
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maker: Minton & Co.
maker: Stevens, Alfred George

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 29

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 14



EXHIBITIONS HISTORY
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title:	Victorian and Edwardian Decorative Art - The Handley-Read Collection
title:	Alfred Stevens, 1817-1875
title:	The Victorian Vision of Italy
CITATIONS
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Victorian and Edwardian Decorative Art , The Handley-Read Collection
Minton 1798-1910
Alfred Stevens and his Work, being a collection of 57 autotypes, with a brief memoir and account of his principal productions;
Dictionary of Minton
Minton: The First Two Hundred Years of Design & Production
Fitzwilliam Museum Handbooks, English Pottery
Minton ‘Majolica’: an historical survey and exhibition catalogue
Victorian Pottery
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