IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 71258 accession number: C.1064-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 30 April 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Circular creamware plate with a wide rim, curved sides and flat centre, decorated over-glaze to cover the whole upper surface with a resist-lustre design on silver lustre ground. In the centre is a stylized landscape within a border of interlacing stems and leaves. Two trees, one on either side, are linked by a twining creeper and between the trees a bird flies down to a four-bar gate. The rim is encircled by a vine stem with bunches of grapes and foliage. The background is filled with fine sgraffito tendrils. The underside is glazed only. The cream surface is intensified by use of an opaque glaze. object type: Cream earthenware, moulded and glazed, dipped in silver (platinum) lustre over resist decoration and finished with sgraffito. title: plate NOTES ----- type: history note value: Bought from Mr V. B. Button, Lower Grosvenor Street, London SW, on 18 November 1907 for £12.10s (twelve pounds ten shillings), by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, Trinity College, Cambridge. Mr Button had bought the dish, and a pair like it, from a dealer. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: J. W. L. Glaisher creditline: Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/71258 SUBJECTS ------------------- bird tree gate bird tree gate TECHNIQUES ---------- Earthenware, moulded,glazed, dipped in lustre over resist decoration, sgraffito details. moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: earthenware category: creamware category: Queen's ware category: lustreware DATING ------ creation date: 1815 - 1830 creation date earliest: 1815 creation date latest: 1830 culture: 19th Century, Early culture: George III CREATORS -------- maker: Leeds Pottery maker: Hartley, Greens & Co. DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 36.5 dimension: Height units: cm value: 3.7 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Fitzwilliam Museum Handbooks, English Pottery The Origin of English Silver Lustre Collecting Lustreware The Leeds Pottery 1770-1881 Creamware and other English Pottery at Temple Newsam House, Leeds 19th Century Lustreware Illustrated Guide to British Jugs : from mediaeval times to the twentieth century Manufacturing Processes of Tableware during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/C_1064_1928_282_29.jpg height: 757 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/mid_C_1064_1928_282_29.jpg height: 498 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/C_1064_1928_282_29.jpg height: 757 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa19/preview_C_1064_1928_282_29.jpg height: 249 pixels width: 250 pixels