IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 76699 accession number: C.2291-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 15 April 2025 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Earthenware, thrown, with applied handle, and a cover attached to the handle by means of a pewter mount with a hinged thumbpiece, Tin-glazed overall, and painted in blue, green, yellow, red, and bluish-black. The lower part is cylindrical, and above, the sides slope inwards to a narrow neck with a projecting lip. The handle has a longitudinal depression, and a short tail at its lower end. The body of the jug is decorated with horizontal bands of green, yellow, and red, and vertical panels of blue in imitation of a wooden jug, and under the handle has a horizontal panel enclosing the name 'Jasques.Sorel' painted in bluish-black. The underside of the lip and mouth is decorated with a flying exotic bird (restoration), an insect, and four flower heads. The handle has a red line running down each side, and two knots of ribbon on its back. The cover is decorated with a flying exotic bird, an insect, and seven scattered flower heads. object type: tin-glazed earthenware, painted in blue green, yellow, red, and bluish-black in imitation of the staves and hoops of a wooden jug, with below the handle, the name 'Jasques. Sorel'. The cover is decorated with an exotic bird, a butterfly and scattered flowers title: jug NOTES ----- type: history note value: G. Gouy & Fils, 56 rue Beauvoisine, Rouen, from whom purchased for 50 francs on 10 January 1907 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/76699 SUBJECTS ------------------- bird bird CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: French faïence DATING ------ creation date: 1750 - 1750 creation date earliest: 1750 creation date latest: 1750 culture: 18th Century, Mid CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown maker: Sinceny Faïence factory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 22.6 dimension: Width value: 15.2 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Faïences françaises XVIe-XVIIIe siècles --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa1/C_2291_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_2291_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_2291_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_2291_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_2291_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_2291_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_2291_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_2291_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_2291_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_2291_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_2291_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_2291_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_2291_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_2291_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_2291_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_2291_1928_284_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels