IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 75371 accession number: C.5-1901 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 30 April 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Buff earthenware tin-glazed. Of albarello form with uneven, bulging sides. object type: Tin-glazed earthenware dispensing pot. title: drug pot NOTES ----- type: history note value: Probably James Smith, Whitechapel, London; the number 12 in the inscription on the pot may refer to its lot number in Sotheby, Wilkinson and Hodge's sale of 1901. Record of donation not found, 1981. It is possible that the pot was acquired by Dr Glaisher at the James Smith Sale among a box of fragments he records having bought, and was later bequeathed by him as part of his collection in 1928, rather than having been donated by an unknown person in in 1901. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/75371 TECHNIQUES ---------- buff earthenware, with very speckly tin-glaze, now discoloured, probably by burial tin-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: English delftware DATING ------ creation date: 1600 - 1700 creation date earliest: 1600 creation date latest: 1700 culture: 17th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified Southwark Pottery DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 3.6 dimension: Height units: cm value: 4.4 CITATIONS -------- Delftware in the Fitzwilliam Museum --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_5_1901.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 580 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/mid_C_5_1901.jpg height: 655 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_5_1901.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 580 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/preview_C_5_1901.jpg height: 328 pixels width: 250 pixels