IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 76596 accession number: C.2079-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Friday 15 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Brown stoneware, thrown with applied handle, overall lustrous brown glaze (Lehmglasur), and applied moulded relief decoration. The bulbous body has been flattened to create five sides, and contracts at the top into a funnel-shaped neck pinched at the front to form a lip. The twisted loop handle tapers towards the lower end which has an upward scroll at its junction with the body. Around the top of the handle is a pewter mount with a hinged shell-shaped thumb piece attached to the flat cover. The front is decorated with a crown over the Prussian Eagle holding a sword and sceptre, and having over its breast, a shield bearing the cipher FR in script letters for Fridericus Rex. On either side of it are two beaded stems each having two leaves and one flower.The rim has an edging of alternating semi-circular and pointed shapes, missing on one side. An undecorated band round the base suggess that it once had a mount. object type: brown stoneware with overall lustrous bown glaze, decorated with applied moulded reliefs of a crown over the Prussian Eagle with a shield bearing the cipher of Frederick King of Prussia, flanked by floral sprays title: jug NOTES ----- type: history note value: Max Rosenheim; Sotheby's, 3-4 May 1924, ‘Catalogue of the collection of porcelain, pottery formed by the late Max Rosenheim Esq FSA and Maurice Rosenheim Esq. FSA (sold by order of the Executors), second day part of lot 174; sold for £2 to Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambidge. 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/76596 PEOPLE ------------------- Rosenheim, Max SUBJECTS ------------------- crown eagle shield cipher flower crown eagle shield cipher flower CATEGORIES ------ category: stoneware category: German stoneware DATING ------ creation date: 1740 - 1786 creation date earliest: 1740 creation date latest: 1786 culture: 18th Century, Mid-Late CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified Bunzlau pottery DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 20.3 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Kunstgewerbemuseum der Stadt Köln, Steinzeug German Stoneware 1200-1900 Archaeology and Cultural History Deutsches Steinzeug der Renaissance-und Barockzeit --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa1/C_2079_1928_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa1/mid_C_2079_1928_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa1/C_2079_1928_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa1/preview_C_2079_1928_281_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa1/C_2079_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa1/mid_C_2079_1928_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa1/C_2079_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa1/preview_C_2079_1928_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa1/C_2079_1928_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa1/mid_C_2079_1928_283_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa1/C_2079_1928_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa1/preview_C_2079_1928_283_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa1/C_2079_1928_284_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa1/mid_C_2079_1928_284_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa1/C_2079_1928_284_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa1/preview_C_2079_1928_284_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/C_2079_1928.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 508 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/mid_C_2079_1928.jpg height: 748 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/C_2079_1928.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 508 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/preview_C_2079_1928.jpg height: 374 pixels width: 250 pixels