IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 317596 accession number: C.15-2024 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 10 September 2024 updated: Tuesday 18 February 2025 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Tin-glazed-earthenware, moulded, and painted in blue and yellow. The bowl is of lobed form with a scalloped rim and deep, curved sides, standing on a low foot of which about half has been chipped away. It is decorated with a central medallion enclosing the initials of a man and wife, R/W: A:/1617' surrounded by a broad yellow circle between two blue circles. Radiating from this there are twelve panels edged with yellow extending to the rim, decorated alternately with a plant motif partly reserved in a blue ground, and two wavy W-like motifs one above the other on a white ground. title: basin NOTES ----- type: history note value: Sold by Simon Westman and Jonathan Horne, date unknown (label affixed to the underside of the dish); private UK collector; from whom purchased by the vendor, Kevin Morris. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Bought with the Perceval Fund, 2024 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/317596 TECHNIQUES ---------- tin-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: English delftware DATING ------ creation date: 1617 - 1617 creation date earliest: 1617 creation date latest: 1617 culture: 17th Century, Early culture: James I CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 38 CITATIONS -------- Early English Delftware from London and Virginia Dated English Delftware London Delftware London's Delftware Industry, The tin-glazed pottery industries of Southwark and Lambeth ---