IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 71828 accession number: C.1334-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Wednesday 10 February 2021 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Buff earthenware, covered with shiny white tin-glaze with many pinholes on the back, and painted in bright blue. Circular with a narrow sloping rim and deep curved sides, standing on a footring, pierced by two holes. The front is painted with an interior with a vault with a cherub's head at its apex, supported by two columns with foliated capitals. The floor is tiled with lozenge-shaped tiles. On the right, a crowned woman is seated in a chair having a shoe fitted by a young man, who kneels beside her. His hat lies on the floor in front of him. Above and to the right of his head are the initials and date, \f1\fs24\lquote H/RM/1677\rquote . \f0\fs17 To the left of him is a man in civilian dress stands on a recumbent man in armour, and further to the left is another standing man in armour. The rim is decorated with a border of scrolls and stylized plants, and there is a blue band round the edge. object type: tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue. Crispin, Crispinian and Ursula, daughter of the Emperor Maximus title: dish NOTES ----- type: history note value: Mrs Westley, who lent it to Northampton Museum; her son who was a parson and may have been the Rev. W.A. Westley of St John’s Vicarage, Werneth, Oldham; Frank Stoner, London from whom purchased on 5 October 1925 for £160 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge 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/71828 PEOPLE ------------------- Westley, Mrs Crispin Crispianus Ursula SUBJECTS ------------------- shoe shoe TECHNIQUES ---------- tin-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: English delftware DATING ------ creation date: 1677 - 1677 creation date earliest: 1677 creation date latest: 1677 culture: 17th Century, Late culture: Charles II CREATORS -------- maker: Pickleherring Pottery maker: Newnham, Richard DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 39.2 dimension: Height units: cm value: 8.3 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Exhibition of Early English Earthenware title: English Delftware Dishes from the Glaisher Collection title: Treasured Possessions from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment CITATIONS -------- Some Named and Dated Pieces of Earthenware of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries from the Manfield Collection i n Northampton Museum Illustrated Catalogue of Early English Earthenware Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge English Delftware Dishes from the Glaisher Collection Delftware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Treasured Possessions from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment The pleasant and Princely History of the Gentle Craft. A discourse containing many Matters of Delight, Very Pleasant to Read. Showing what Famous Men have been Shooemakers in time past in this land, with their Worthy Deeds and great Hospitality --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa30/c_1334_1928_201011_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 1000 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa30/mid_c_1334_1928_201011_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 512 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa30/c_1334_1928_201011_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 1000 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa30/preview_c_1334_1928_201011_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 256 pixels width: 250 pixels