IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 76697 accession number: C.2285-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 8 April 2025 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Pinkish-buff earthenware, thrown, tin-glazed and painted in blue. The circular salt pan has an everted edge, and is supported on a wider conical foot. The inside of the salt pan is decorated with a flower on a stalk surrounded by foliage, and encircled by two narrow concentric circles and a wider band on the rim. The foot is decorated with a broad blue band at the top, with two spaced narrow bands below, a border of alternating leaves (or petals) and strokes, and a narrow band close to the edge. object type: tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue title: saltcellar NOTES ----- type: history note value: Bought in Caen in 1894 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/76697 SUBJECTS ------------------- dining TECHNIQUES ---------- pinkish-buff earthenware, tin-glazed, and painted in blue throwing (pottery technique) CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: French faïence DATING ------ creation date: 1700 - 1725 creation date earliest: 1700 creation date latest: 1725 culture: 18th Century, Early culture: Regence CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 5.6 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Histoire de la Faïence de Rouen --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa1/C_2285_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_2285_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_2285_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_2285_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_2285_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_2285_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_2285_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_2285_1928_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels