IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 71979 accession number: C.1422-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 19 June 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Buff earthenware, press-moulded, tin-glazed, and painted in blue, green, yellow, and brownish-orange. Oval, with wide rim, and curved well. The rim is moulded in relief with alternately oval and circular depressions, separated by human masks, and vases of fruit and foliage, and the well with a reclining nude woman and five nude children, one of whom holds a dog. One of the circular depressions at top centre of the rim is nitialled and dated 'D/C M/1651 in blue. object type: tin-glazed and painted earthenware decorated in relief with a nude woman and five children emblematic of fecundity title: dish NOTES ----- type: history note value: Purchased by Mortlock & Co, Oxford Street, London from an unknown vendor in 1893; purchased by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher from Mortlock & Co on 10 July 1907, for £75. 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/71979 PEOPLE ------------------- woman children SUBJECTS ------------------- fecundity sailing ship dog leaf (plant material) fecundity sailing ship dog leaf (plant material) TECHNIQUES ---------- earthenware, press-moulded, tin-glazed, and painted in blue, green, yellow, and brownish-orange high-temperature (metallic oxide) colours; many pinholes in the glaze on the reverse press-moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- tin-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: English delftware DATING ------ creation date: 1651 - 1651 creation date earliest: 1651 creation date latest: 1651 culture: 17th Century, Mid# culture: Commonwealth CREATORS -------- maker: Pickleherring Pottery maker: Newnham, Richard DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 6.1 dimension: Width units: cm value: 40.3 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Exhibition of Early English Earthenware title: English Delftware Dishes from the Glaisher Collection title: Philip Eglin and English Folk Ceramics CITATIONS -------- 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 Fitzwilliam Museum Handbooks, English Pottery Delftware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Bernard Palissy and London delftware Sur les traces des producteurs de céramiques à glaçure plombifère et à décor moulé des règnes de Henri IV et de Louis XIII English Delftware Copies of La Fécondité pattern Dishes attributed to Palissy London's Delftware Industry, The tin-glazed pottery industries of Southwark and Lambeth Important English Furniture, Ceramics and Decorations including property from the Estate of Katharine Graham --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1422_1928.jpg height: 544 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/mid_C_1422_1928.jpg height: 358 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1422_1928.jpg height: 544 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/preview_C_1422_1928.jpg height: 179 pixels width: 250 pixels