English Delftware dish with Crispin, Crispinian and Ursula

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$An image of Dish. English Delftware. Pickleherring Pottery, probably, Southwark, London. Newnham, Richard, proprietor of Pickleherring Pottery at time of making of the dish. Crispin, Crispinian and Ursula, daughter of the Emperor Maximus. The front is painted with an interior with a vault with a cherub's head at its apex, supported by two columns with foliated capitals. The floor is tiled with lozenge-shaped tiles. On the right, a crowned woman is seated in a chair having a shoe fitted by a young man, who kneels beside her. His hat lies on the floor in front of him. Above and to the right of his head are the initials and date, \f1\fs24\lquote H/RM/1677\rquote . \f0\fs17 To the left of him is a man in civilian dress stands on a recumbent man in armour, and further to the left is another standing man in armour. The rim is decorated with a border of scrolls and stylized plants, and there is a blue band round the edge. Tin-glazed buff earthenware painted in blue; the glaze has been removed from the footring, height, whole, 8.3 cm, diameter, whole, 39.2 cm, dated 1677. Production Note: This dish was probably made to commemorate the marriage of a shoemaker. Crispin and Crispinian are the patron saints of shoemakers, and according to English tradition, plied their trade at Faversham in Kent. The legendary marriage between Crispin and Ursula, daughter of the Emperor Maximinus was popularized during the 17th century by Thomas Deloney's 'The Pleasant and Princely History of the Gentle Craft'.$

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Dish. English Delftware. Pickleherring Pottery, probably, Southwark, London. Newnham, Richard, proprietor of Pickleherring Pottery at time of making of the dish. Crispin, Crispinian and Ursula, daughter of the Emperor Maximus. The front is painted with an interior with a vault with a cherub's head at its apex, supported by two columns with foliated capitals. The floor is tiled with lozenge-shaped tiles. On the right, a crowned woman is seated in a chair having a shoe fitted by a young man, who kneels beside her. His hat lies on the floor in front of him. Above and to the right of his head are the initials and date, \f1\fs24\lquote H/RM/1677\rquote . \f0\fs17 To the left of him is a man in civilian dress stands on a recumbent man in armour, and further to the left is another standing man in armour. The rim is decorated with a border of scrolls and stylized plants, and there is a blue band round the edge. Tin-glazed buff earthenware painted in blue; the glaze has been removed from the footring, height, whole, 8.3 cm, diameter, whole, 39.2 cm, dated 1677. Production Note: This dish was probably made to commemorate the marriage of a shoemaker. Crispin and Crispinian are the patron saints of shoemakers, and according to English tradition, plied their trade at Faversham in Kent. The legendary marriage between Crispin and Ursula, daughter of the Emperor Maximinus was popularized during the 17th century by Thomas Deloney's 'The Pleasant and Princely History of the Gentle Craft'.

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Accession Number: C.1334-1928
Aperture: f/22.0
Focal length: 80
Camera: Hasselblad H3DII-31
Photographer name: Michael Jones
Image height: 1024 pixels
Image width: 1000 pixels
Processed with: Adobe Photoshop Lightroom 5.6 (Macintosh)
Filesize: 404.67kB
Exposure time: 1/125
ISO Speed: 100
Fnumber: 22/1
Captured: 2009:08:17 15:21:14

Key words

17th Century Artist/Maker Date Delftware Department English English Delftware Fitz_AA Material Medium Nationalities Object Type Other Keywords Pickleherring Pottery Predominant Colours Restoration Stewart Period Stuart Period Workflow _WF_AdOK _WF_KWD _WF_OPAC _WF_PCtd armour blue and white cherubs circular clothes clothing cobbler costume dish earthenware fashion glazed hair hairstyle lying lying down marriage patron patron saint prone recumbent round shoemaker shoes tiled tiled floor tin-glazed

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