IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 76588 accession number: C.2058-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Friday 19 May 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Grey stoneware, with incised, pierced, and applied stamped decoration, painted in blue (smalt) and salt-glazed. In the form of a rectangular pedestal resting on six knob feet with two circular openings in the top for inkwells (missing), two small holes to take pens, and, on the right a small cylinder for a taper, a high back, in front of which is a bench with small figures of four men and a woman sitting on it playing musical instruments. A bottle and a dish stood (now missing) on a small table on the bench between two figures, and a pigeon perches between two others. In front, at the bottom, there is a projecting tray for the pens. The sides and front are decorated with circles pierced with elliptical holes which create lozenge shapes inside the circles, and there are knurled knobs on all the left and right corners, and in the middle of the top and back. The flat reverse is decorated with three and a half pierced rosettes, stamped leaf motifs, and on either side at the top, two crowned lions with incised outlines. object type: Rectangular salt-glazed stoneware inkstand decorated with pierced patterns and five modelled figures playing musical instruments and drinking. title: ink stand NOTES ----- type: history note value: George Stoner, Stoner & Evans, London, from whom purchased for £45 on 14 November 1919 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/76588 TECHNIQUES ---------- salt-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: stoneware category: salt-glazed stoneware DATING ------ creation date: 1740 - 1770 creation date earliest: 1740 creation date latest: 1770 culture: 18th Century, Mid CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified Westerwald pottery DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Depth units: cm value: 14.2 dimension: Height units: cm value: 14.9 dimension: Width units: cm value: 20.3 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Treasured Possessions from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Treasured Possessions from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment German Stoneware 1200-1900 Archaeology and Cultural History --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa30/c_2058_1928_1_201403_amt49_mas.jpg height: 790 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa30/mid_c_2058_1928_1_201403_amt49_mas.jpg height: 386 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa30/c_2058_1928_1_201403_amt49_mas.jpg height: 790 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa30/preview_c_2058_1928_1_201403_amt49_mas.jpg height: 193 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa30/c_2058_1928_2_201403_amt49_mas.jpg height: 833 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa30/mid_c_2058_1928_2_201403_amt49_mas.jpg height: 407 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa30/c_2058_1928_2_201403_amt49_mas.jpg height: 833 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa30/preview_c_2058_1928_2_201403_amt49_mas.jpg height: 203 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa30/c_2058_1928_3_201403_amt49_mas.jpg height: 764 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa30/mid_c_2058_1928_3_201403_amt49_mas.jpg height: 373 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa30/c_2058_1928_3_201403_amt49_mas.jpg height: 764 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa30/preview_c_2058_1928_3_201403_amt49_mas.jpg height: 187 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa30/c_2058_1928_4_201403_amt49_mas.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 876 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa30/mid_c_2058_1928_4_201403_amt49_mas.jpg height: 584 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa30/c_2058_1928_4_201403_amt49_mas.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 876 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa30/preview_c_2058_1928_4_201403_amt49_mas.jpg height: 292 pixels width: 250 pixels