IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 76704 accession number: C.2296-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 2 September 2025 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Earthenware, moulded in the form of a book, tin-glazed, and painted in blue, yellowish-green, yellow, red, and manganese-purple. The book has a circular hole on the lower edge next to the spine, which leads into the interior and is glazed. The spine is blue, and the fore-edge and the clasps to keep the book closed are yellow. On the front cover there is a stylized cock surrounded by a rectangular border of blue scrolls with yellow spots, and red or green tufts. Within the border, across the top above the cock is an inscription 'Quand ce coq chantera/Mon amour finira' (When this cock sings/My love will end). On the back cover of the book there is a multi-colour floral spray surrounded by a similar border. On the blue spine object type: tin-glazed earthenware with polychrome decoration. Inscribed 'Amitie' and 'Quand ce coq chantera/Mon amour finira' title: scent bottle NOTES ----- type: history note value: Bought at Boulogne-sur-Mer for a few sous 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/76704 SUBJECTS ------------------- cock floral spray cock floral spray TECHNIQUES ---------- earthenware, probably partly moulded and partly assembled by hand, tin-glazed, and painted in blue, yellowish-green, yellow, red, and manganese-purple high temperature colours hand-building CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: French faïence DATING ------ creation date: 1850 - 1890 creation date earliest: 1850 creation date latest: 1890 culture: 19th Century, Late CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Depth units: cm value: 2.4 dimension: Height units: cm value: 7.5 dimension: Width units: cm value: 5.1 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa1/C_2296_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_2296_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_2296_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_2296_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_2296_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_2296_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_2296_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_2296_1928_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels