IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 76557 accession number: C.1973-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 23 September 2025 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Cream-coloured earthenware (faïence fine), moulded, transfer-printed onglaze in black, and painted in dark manganese-purple. The plate is circular with a narrow, slightly sloping border, and curved sides. The central area is printed with two peasants wearing the costume of the Canton of Thurgau seated in a garden with a lake and mountains in the distance. On the left, a man reading a book, and on the right, a woman holding a cat on her lap, Below is the printed inscription 'Canton de Thurgovie'. A narrow manganese-purple line encircles the inner edge of the border, and a narrow and a wide band its outer edge. object type: Cream-coloured earthenware, transfer-printed in black with two peasants seated in a garden, and inscription 'Canton de Thurgovie' title: plate NOTES ----- type: history note value: Mr G. Morganti, Geneva, from whom purchased for 5 francs on 22 February 1904 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/76557 SUBJECTS ------------------- peasant peasant TECHNIQUES ---------- crea -coloured earthenware, press-moulded, glazed, transfer-printed in black, and painted in dark manganese-purple press-moulding CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware category: creamware category: faience fine DATING ------ creation date: 1825 - 1840 creation date earliest: 1825 creation date latest: 1840 culture: 19th Century, second quarter CREATORS -------- maker: Baylon Factory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 21 dimension: Height units: cm value: 2 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Ceramica CH, Inventaire National de la Céramique dans les Collections Publiques Suisses (1500-1950), Band II, Solothurn Ceramica CH, Inventaire National de la Céramique dans les Collections Publiques Suisses (1500-1950), Neuchâtel, I Ceramica CH, Inventaire National de la Céramique dans les Collections Publiques Suisses (1500-1950), Vaud III/I --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa1/C_1973_1928.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa1/mid_C_1973_1928.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa1/C_1973_1928.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa1/preview_C_1973_1928.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels