IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 75517 accession number: C.557-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 30 April 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Off-white stoneware, press-moulded, and salt-glazed. Circular with a sloping rim with twelve arcs round the edge, a shallow well with curved sides, and slightly recessed base. The well is decorated overall with a delicate spray of leaves and berries on a veined background, and the rim with six groups of three acanthus leaves of which the central one projects inwards, on a trellis ground. A small piece of debris from the kiln has adhered to the back of the rim. title: plate NOTES ----- type: history note value: Sainsbury’s shop (which for forty years was Harvey’s) opposite the Post Office at Bournemouth where bought for 12s.6d. at the same time as C.556-1928, on 2 January 1924 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, 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 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/75517 SUBJECTS ------------------- acanthus acanthus TECHNIQUES ---------- white stoneware, press-moulded, and salt-glazed press-moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- salt-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: stoneware category: white salt-glazed stoneware DATING ------ creation date: 1755 - 1770 creation date earliest: 1755 creation date latest: 1770 culture: 18th Century, third quarter culture: George II culture: George III CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified Staffordshire factory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 22 dimension: Height units: cm value: 2 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge The Henry H. Weldon Collection, English Pottery 1650-1800 White Salt-glazed Stoneware of the British Isles --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_557_1928.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/mid_C_557_1928.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_557_1928.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/preview_C_557_1928.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels