English Delftware dish with William III

An image of English Delftware. Dish/charger. Dish: William III. Unidentified London pottery, England. Circular with everted rim and curved sides, standing on a footring. Decorated with a standing figure of William III bewigged, and wearing a crown, an ermine-lined robe, garters and shoes with bows, and holding an orb and sceptre. Below his hands is an unidentified object,with scales, perhaps a purse. Inscribed on either side above his head are the letters W and R. On each side there are by dark green half fir-trees, and in the foreground broad green and yellow stripes. The rim is encircled by a yellow band and blue dashes. On the reverse, indistinctly inscribed '16 . 94'. Earthenware, moulded, the front tin-glazed, and painted in blue, dark green, yellow, orange, and manganese-purple; the back covered witha pale slip and a thin bluish lead-glaze which has crawled in places; on stilt mark on footring. Height, whole, 7.9 cm, diameter 34.6 cm, dated 1694. Baroque. William III (1750-1702).

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English Delftware. Dish/charger. Dish: William III. Unidentified London pottery, England. Circular with everted rim and curved sides, standing on a footring. Decorated with a standing figure of William III bewigged, and wearing a crown, an ermine-lined robe, garters and shoes with bows, and holding an orb and sceptre. Below his hands is an unidentified object,with scales, perhaps a purse. Inscribed on either side above his head are the letters W and R. On each side there are by dark green half fir-trees, and in the foreground broad green and yellow stripes. The rim is encircled by a yellow band and blue dashes. On the reverse, indistinctly inscribed '16 . 94'. Earthenware, moulded, the front tin-glazed, and painted in blue, dark green, yellow, orange, and manganese-purple; the back covered witha pale slip and a thin bluish lead-glaze which has crawled in places; on stilt mark on footring. Height, whole, 7.9 cm, diameter 34.6 cm, dated 1694. Baroque. William III (1750-1702).

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Accession Number: C.1630-1928
Photograph copyright © The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge.
Aperture: f/27.0
Focal length: 80
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Amy Jugg
Image height: 1024 pixels
Image width: 920 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.4 (Windows)
Filesize: 753.75kB
Exposure time: 1/60
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 27/1
Captured: 2053:01:17 13:43:34

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18th Century Baroque cape charger circular cloak clothes clothing crown crowned dated Delftware dish earthenware English English Delftware ermine fashion fir trees firs Fitz_AA fur cloak fur collar fur lined garters glazed green initial initialled kings male Monarch monarchs monarchy moulded Orange-Nassau orb periwig pottery Restoration round royal royalty rulers sceptre shoes tin-glazed trees wigs Willem de Zwijger Willem van Oranje William II of Scotland William III of England William III of Orange William of Orange William the Silent yellow

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