IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 75137 accession number: C.45 & A-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 30 April 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Square inkstand, with cut off corners and four holes at the corners for pens. The lid is circular, covering a round neck within which sits a conical ink well. The colour is a pinkish, purple lustre over a deep blue ground, which shows through at the edges; it covers the whole of the surface except the inside of the ink well, which has the same glaze but not the blue. The underside is recessed and of both inkstand and cover is decorated. object type: Earthenware inkstand and cover, decorated with under glaze blue and with pinkish lustre glaze. title: inkstand and cover NOTES ----- type: history note value: Army & Navy Stores, London, bought for four shillings and nine-pence on 13 Nov 13, 1918, by Dr Glaisher, Trinity College, Cambridge LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: J. W. L. Glaisher creditline: Dr. J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest, 1928 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/75137 PEOPLE ------------------- Burslem School of Art James Macintyre & Co Moorcroft, Walter TECHNIQUES ---------- Earthenware, in two parts, painted underglaze in blue and covered in pinkish lustre. hand building TECHNIQUES ---------- painting underglaze TECHNIQUES ---------- lustring CATEGORIES ------ category: earthenware category: lustreware category: Art Pottery DATING ------ creation date: 1913 - 1918 creation date earliest: 1913 creation date latest: 1918 culture: 20th Century, Early CREATORS -------- maker: Moorcroft, William maker: Moorcroft Pottery DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 6.6 dimension: Height units: in value: 2.625 CITATIONS -------- William Moorcroft and Walter Moorcroft, 1897-1973 : catalogue of an exhibition of pottery at the Fine Art Society, 4 December to 15 December 1973 at 148 New Bond Street, London W.1 Guide to Moorcroft Pottery 1897-1993 Encyclopaedia of British Art Pottery 1870-1920 Liberty’s 1875-1975: An exhibition to mark the firm’s centenary Encyclopedia of Pottery and Porcelain, The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Dictionary of Ceramic Artists --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_45_20_26_20A_1928_281_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/mid_C_45_20_26_20A_1928_281_29.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_45_20_26_20A_1928_281_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/preview_C_45_20_26_20A_1928_281_29.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_45_20_26_20A_1928_282_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/mid_C_45_20_26_20A_1928_282_29.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_45_20_26_20A_1928_282_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/preview_C_45_20_26_20A_1928_282_29.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels