IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 80801 accession number: C.2222-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Thursday 11 August 2016 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Earthenware, tin-glazed overall. The glaze is thickly applied, and obscures the detail of the moulding. Painted in blue, yellow, orange, and manganese-purple. Shape 72. The rib round the boss is moulded in relief with a foliated stem. The well is decorated with ten spiral reversed gadroons separated by foliage in relief, and the sloping rim has five shell-shaped depressions flanked by foliage in relief. In the middle, beneath a prelate's or cardinal's hat, is a shield charged with the arms azure, two swords crossed in saltire proper, the hilts in chief or, flanked on each side by six tassels arranged one, two, three. object type: Maiolica basin for ewer, painted in blue, yellow, orange, and purple with a shield, gadroons, shell-shapes and foliage in relief. title: basin NOTES ----- type: history note value: Probably Sotheby's, 5 December 1918, lot 164; Dr J.W.L. Glaisher. 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/80801 SUBJECTS ------------------- coat-of-arms coat-of-arms TECHNIQUES ---------- Earthenware, tin-glazed overall. The glaze is thickly applied, and obscures the detail of the moulding. Painted in blue, yellow, orange, and manganese-purple. tin-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware DATING ------ creation date: 1650 - 1675 creation date earliest: 1650 creation date latest: 1675 culture: 17th Century# CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 51.1 dimension: Height units: cm value: 6.2 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Italian Maiolica in the Fitzwilliam Museum CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Italian Maiolica and Incised Slipware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Ceramiche occidentale del Museo Civico Medievale di Bologna ---