IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 118640 accession number: EC.8-1946 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 19 September 2017 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Soft-paste porcelain, press-moulded, and painted underglaze in blue. The plate has an octagonal rim and a circular well, painted in the centre with the initials ‘RC’ outlined in dots, within a cartouche of foliate scrolls surrounded by flowering branches. The sides are painted with an elaborate diaper border, interspersed with stylized pineapples and trefoils. The underside is painted in capital letters ‘Mr ROBERT/ CROWTHER/STOCKPORT/CHESHIRE’ and in script, the date ‘January 1770’. object type: Soft-paste porcelain octagonal plate, painted underglaze in blue with initials RC in a cartouche surrounded by flowering branches, and a diaper border. The back painted in capitals ‘Mr ROBERT/CROWTHER/STOCKPORT/CHESHIRE’ and in script, the date ‘January 1770’ title: plate NOTES ----- type: history note value: Unknown before donor LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by Nicolas Radford in memory of his mother Mrs Dora Radford STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/118640 TECHNIQUES ---------- soft-paste porcelain, press-moulded, and painted underglaze in blue press-moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- glazing (coating) CATEGORIES ------ category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1770 - 1770 creation date earliest: 1770 creation date latest: 1770 culture: 18th Century, third quarter# culture: George III CREATORS -------- maker: Bow Porcelain Manufactory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 21.3 dimension: Width units: cm value: 20.7 CITATIONS -------- English Blue and White Porcelain of the Eighteenth Century Catalogue of the Collection of English Porcelain in the Department of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography of the British Museum Bow Porcelain 1744-1776, A Special Exhibition of Documentary Material to Commemorate the Bi-centenary of the Retirement of Thomas Frye Bow Porcelain John De Lanauze and others associated with the Bow factory Later Bow porcelain: a suggested chronology ---