IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 71892 accession number: C.1379-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 25 February 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Buff earthenware with greyish tin-glaze, painted in blue and manganese-purple. Circular with narrow sloping rim, shallow curved sides, and flat centre. Decorated in the centre with a fruit on a stalk, with two leaves above, a pair of leaves on each side, a trefoil leaf or flower and foliage below, surrounded by a manganese-purple circle. The veins on the large leaves were incised through the blue. Two manganese-purple bands encircle the inside edge of the rim. Three spur marks on the underside of the rim. object type: tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue and manganese-purple with a fruit, a small bud or flower and leaves title: plate NOTES ----- type: history note value: Unknown before 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/71892 SUBJECTS ------------------- fruit fruit TECHNIQUES ---------- buff earthenware, moulded, covered with greyish tin-glaze, painted in blue and manganese-purple; three spur marks on the underside of the rim moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- tin-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: English delftware DATING ------ creation date: 1750 - 1775 creation date earliest: 1750 creation date latest: 1775 culture: 18th Century, third quarter# culture: George II culture: George III CREATORS -------- maker: unidentified London pottery DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 22.3 dimension: Height units: cm value: 2.8 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Delftware in the Fitzwilliam Museum --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1379_1928.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 608 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/mid_C_1379_1928.jpg height: 625 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1379_1928.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 608 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/preview_C_1379_1928.jpg height: 313 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa4/C_1379_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_1379_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_1379_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_1379_1928_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels