IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 75111 accession number: C.44-1972 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Wednesday 15 July 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: A tall vase of amphora form with strap handles from shoulder to neck and flaring mouth. The body is decorated with two scenes of six figures in classical dress, one figure a woman. On one side the figures are running with a winged horse, and carrying torches. On the other the woman plays two long pipes and the men dance. The mouth of the vase is decorated with vine scroll; the shoulders and neck with bands of mistletoe, Greek key, anthemion and vitruvian scroll, and the foot with an egg and dart border. The handles and rim are gilt. The inside of the mouth is cream and glazed, with two gilt bands. The underside is deeply recessed, and glazed, with a broad un-glazed foot rim. object type: Earthenware, decorated with classical figures and ornament in polychrome enamels and gilt reserved in a bright blue background. title: vase NOTES ----- type: history note value: Charles and Lavinia Handley Read; purchased from Thomas Stainton, executor of the Handley-Read Estate LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Purchased with the Perceval Fund and with Grant-in-Aid from the Victoria & Albert Museum STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/75111 SUBJECTS ------------------- Delta 10 Abydos Egypt TECHNIQUES ---------- Earthenware, decorated in polychrome enamels and gilt reserved in a bright blue background. throwing CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware category: Victorian pottery DATING ------ creation date: 1860 - 1862 creation date earliest: 1860 creation date latest: 1862 culture: Victorian CREATORS -------- maker: Samuel Alcock and Co. DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 52 dimension: Height units: in value: 20.5 dimension: Width units: cm value: 24.5 dimension: Width units: in value: 9.625 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Victorian and Edwardian Decorative Art - The Handley-Read Collection title: International Exhibition CITATIONS -------- Victorian and Edwardian Decorative Art , The Handley-Read Collection The Art Journal Illustrated Catalogue of the International Exhibition, 1862 Cassell's Illustrated Exhibitor, Illustrations with Descriptions of the International Exhibition of 1862 Vases grecs de M. le Comte de Lamberg Répertoire des vases peints: grecs et etrusques Grammar of Ornament Encyclopedia of Pottery and Porcelain, The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Encyclopaedia of British Porcelain Manufacturers --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa4/C_44_1972_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa4/mid_C_44_1972_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa4/C_44_1972_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa4/preview_C_44_1972_281_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa4/C_44_1972_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa4/mid_C_44_1972_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa4/C_44_1972_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa4/preview_C_44_1972_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa4/C_44_1972_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa4/mid_C_44_1972_283_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa4/C_44_1972_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa4/preview_C_44_1972_283_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa4/C_44_1972_284_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa4/mid_C_44_1972_284_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa4/C_44_1972_284_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa4/preview_C_44_1972_284_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa4/C_44_1972_285_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa4/mid_C_44_1972_285_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa4/C_44_1972_285_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa4/preview_C_44_1972_285_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa4/C_44_1972_286_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa4/mid_C_44_1972_286_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa4/C_44_1972_286_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa4/preview_C_44_1972_286_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels