IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 71862 accession number: C.1357-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 25 February 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Buff earthenware, moulded, the front covered with very white tin-glaze, painted in blue under an application of clear, shiny 'kwaart'. The reverse has thick and uneven glaze. The circular dish has a convex medallion in the centre surrounded by a curved area, and a fluted border; on the underside it has a footring around the concave centre. The central medallion is painted with a half-length portrait of Dr Henry Sacheverall in front of a window with his name 'Dr Henry Sacheverell' written below on a label. On the right there is a looped up curtain, and on the left, a scroll bracket supporting a shelf bearing the tablets of the Commandments labelled 'EXOD I-IIII' and 'CH V-VIII'. The medallions is surrounded by lapets and arrangements of flowers, foliage and birds. The fluted border is painted alternately with stripes, feather pattern and scrolls object type: tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue with a portrait of Dr Henry Sacheverell title: dish NOTES ----- type: history note value: Rackham's 1935 Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection gives the information that it was 'Stated to have belonged to a descendant of Dr Sacheverell, who declared it to be the only one made, the decoration being attributed to the divine himself'; bought in London at an unknown date by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, 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/71862 PEOPLE ------------------- Sacheverell, Dr TECHNIQUES ---------- buff earthenware, moulded, the front covered with very white tin-glaze, painted in blue under an application of clear, shiny 'kwaart'. The reverse has thick, lumpy, and uneven glaze, which has been wiped off the footring moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- tin-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: English delftware DATING ------ creation date: 1710 - 1720 creation date earliest: 1710 creation date latest: 1720 culture: 18th Century, Early# CREATORS -------- maker: unidentified London pottery DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 36 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: English Delftware Dishes from the Glaisher Collection CITATIONS -------- 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 English Delftware Pottery in the Robert Hall Warren Collection, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford English Pottery, Its Development from Early Times to the End of the Eighteenth Century --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1357_1928.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 601 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/mid_C_1357_1928.jpg height: 632 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1357_1928.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 601 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/preview_C_1357_1928.jpg height: 316 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa4/C_1357_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa4/mid_C_1357_1928_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa4/C_1357_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa4/preview_C_1357_1928_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels