IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 11772 accession number: C.49-1972 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 18 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Cream-coloured earthenware painted in blue, two shades of green, orange-red, beige, pale and dark brown, black, and white enamels. Circular with a wide rim and deep curved sides, standing on a foot-ring. In the centre is an owl in a circular medallion surrounded by radiating oak leaves and forest animals amid stylised oak trees. Above these, and extending across the rim, are eight leaf arches, each containing a black and white striped vase encircled by eleven, long-stemmed, stylised daisies on alternate pale blue and black backgrounds. The triangular space between each leaf arch contains a thistle. There is a thin white band around the edge and another, crossed only by the leaf arches, between the centre of the dish and the rim. Around the back is a wide garland of thin leaves and flowers. There is a narrow foot-rim, within which the underside is flat and glazed. object type: Earthenware dish painted in polychrome enamels with a central owl title: charger NOTES ----- type: history note value: Charles and Lavinia Handley-Read Collection; both died 1971; purchased from Thomas Stainton, executor of the Handley-Read Estate LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Purchased with the Perceval Fund and grant-in-aid from the Victoria and Albert Museum. STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/11772 PEOPLE ------------------- Powell, Louise Gimson, Ernest Morris & Co. SUBJECTS ------------------- owl lion stag boar bird ox daisies thistle oak owl lion stag boar bird ox daisies thistle oak TECHNIQUES ---------- Thrown earthenware, glazed and painted enamels throwing TECHNIQUES ---------- glazing (coating) CATEGORIES ------ category: earthenware category: Art Pottery category: creamware category: Queen's ware DATING ------ creation date: 1910 - 1920 creation date earliest: 1910 creation date latest: 1920 culture: 20th Century, Early CREATORS -------- maker: Josiah Wedgwood & Sons maker: Powell, Alfred Hoare DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 47 dimension: Height units: cm value: 7.5 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Victorian and Edwardian Decorative Art - The Handley-Read Collection title: Fantastic Illustration and Design in Britain 1850-1930 title: Beauty's Awakening, The Centenary Exhibition of the Art Workers Guild CITATIONS -------- Victorian and Edwardian Decorative Art , The Handley-Read Collection Fantastic Illustration and Design in Britain 1850-1930 Beauty's Awakening, The Centenary Exhibition of the Art Workers Guild Fitzwilliam Museum Handbooks, English Pottery Treasures of the Fitzwilliam Museum Wedgwood Powell-Wedgwood Pottery Alfred and Louise Powell - an Introduction Wedgwood Ceramics 1846-1959 Alfred and Louise Powell: Good Workmanship with Happy Thoughts The Dictionary of Wedgwood Wedgwood, The New Illustrated Dictionary 19th Century Furniture, Ceramics & Decorative Works of Art, 8 October 2004 A Sketch Book of Alfred Hoare Powell (1865-1960) --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/C_49_1972_283_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 751 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/mid_C_49_1972_283_29.jpg height: 506 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/C_49_1972_283_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 751 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/preview_C_49_1972_283_29.jpg height: 253 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/533/374/large_C_49_1972_mas.jpg height: 1037 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/533/374/mid_C_49_1972_mas.jpg height: 506 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/C.49-1972_mas.jpg surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/533/374/preview_C_49_1972_mas.jpg height: 253 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: zoom format: pyramid tiff location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/533/374/C_49_1972_mas.ptif height: 1980 pixels width: 1956 pixels