IDENTIFIERS
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id:	75455
accession number:	C.535D-1928

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Friday 14 January 2022

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Off-white stoneware, press-moulded and salt-glazed. Circular with deep curved sides, standing on a footring. The decoration on the inside is in relief. In the middle there is a circular medallion enclosing a bird walking to the right with its head turned towards its back, surrounded by a wide latticework border. This is surrounded by eight panels separated by radiating lines, containing respectively: a huntsman with a hound, Danae amongst clouds over a unicorn, Cupid riding a lion with a swan below; a winged figure and an animal with a swan on its back over a heart flanked by figures; a fleeing figure and ? Cupid; a tea party scene with a large teapot or kettle below; a spread eagle; and a stag , a bird and a shield of arms.
object type: white stoneware, press-moulded, and salt-glazed
title:	saucer

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Sotheby's, 17 December 1926, Continental Porcelain, Continental & English Pottery, Antique & Decorative Furniture, part of lot 36; bought by Hunt for Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge


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
collection:	J. W. L. Glaisher
creditline: Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/75455


SUBJECTS
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unicorn
unicorn



TECHNIQUES
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white salt-glazed stoneware, press-moulded with integral relief decoration on the inside, and salt-glazed
press-moulding
TECHNIQUES
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salt-glazing

CATEGORIES
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category: stoneware
category: white salt-glazed stoneware

DATING
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creation date:	1745 - 1755
creation date earliest:	1745
creation date latest:	1755
culture:	18th Century, Mid
culture:	George II

CREATORS
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maker: Unidentified Staffordshire factory

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
value: 2 cm

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 10.8



CITATIONS
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Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge
The Illustrated Guide to Staffordshire Salt-glazed Stoneware
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