IDENTIFIERS
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id:	76701
accession number:	C.2293-1928

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Tuesday 1 September 2020

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Buff earthenware, moulded,  hand-modelled, tin-glazed, and painted in blue, yellowish-green, brown,  and black.  The object comprises a deep dish with curved sides and a wavy edge, with a bowl upside down on top of it, over and around which the separately made trompe l'oeil mussels are arranged. The dish has a blue and black border of alternating panels of cloud scroll and scale pattern separated by panels containing half of a multi-petalled flower. The upside down bowl is white and appears to be undecorated The mussels are variously completely closed, half open, and fully open. A few are in separated halves without their contents, showing either the white inside or the dark brown, black and yellowish-green exteriors.  The whole is very heavy for its size.
object type: tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue, brown, green, and black
title:	dish

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Lovett Collection; sold Puttick & Simpson, London, 6 March 1903, Lovett Sale, lot 285; Mr Mossel by whom sold on 9 March 1903  to Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
collection:	J. W. L. Glaisher
creditline: Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/76701





TECHNIQUES
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moulding
TECHNIQUES
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tin-glazing

CATEGORIES
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category: tin-glazed earthenware
category: French faïence

DATING
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creation date:	1750 - 1800
creation date earliest:	1750
creation date latest:	1800
culture:	18th Century, second half#

CREATORS
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maker: Unidentified Rouen pottery

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Diameter
units: cm
value: 27.5

dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 11.5



EXHIBITIONS HISTORY
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title:	Feast and Fast: The Art of Food in Europe (1500-1800)
CITATIONS
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Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge
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