IDENTIFIERS
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id:	29491
accession number:	C.10-2001

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Monday 18 December 2023

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Pale buff earthenware, tin-glazed, and painted in blue.  On the back there is a fault in the glaze, and three peg marks. Octagonal with incurved edges, sloping sides, and shallow circular well. Decorated in the centre with the inscription '5/but if his/wijfe doth frowne', with above, a crown, below, a winged cherub's head flanked by C-scrolls with three pendant tassels, and on each side, a winged deer's head facing outwards with a C-scroll below, all enclosed by two narrow concentric circles round the edge of the well.
object type: Tin-glazed earthenware 'Merryman Plate', painted in blue with an inscription surrounded by a crown, winged deer's heads, and scrollings Cs.
title:	plate

NOTES
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type: history note
value: John Hext, Exeter; his wife, Jean M. Hext.


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
creditline: Bequeathed by Mrs Jean M. Hext

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/29491





TECHNIQUES
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earthenware, tin-glazed, painted in blue
tin-glazing

CATEGORIES
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category: tin-glazed earthenware

DATING
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creation date:	1690 - 1700
creation date earliest:	1690
creation date latest:	1700
culture:	17th Century, Late
culture:	William III and Mary II

CREATORS
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maker: Unidentified

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Diameter
units: cm
value: 19.3

dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 2.4



CITATIONS
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Dated English Delftware
Genummerde Delftse spreuken-borden uit de zeventiende eeuw
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