IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 72047 accession number: C.1467-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 25 February 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Buff earthenware, tin-glazed greyish-white, painted in blue, olive-green, red, and manganese-purple. Circular with a sloping rim, curved sides and flat centre. In the middle is a dolphin spouting water flanked by blue plants, and on the rim four blue crosses with red spots in the spaces alternating with green Chinese scrolls (?) bound with blue ribbons. 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/72047 SUBJECTS ------------------- dolphin dolphin TECHNIQUES ---------- buff earthenware, covered with greyish tin-glaze and painted in blue, olive-green, red, and manganese-purple high-temperature (metallic oxide) colours tin-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: English delftware DATING ------ creation date: 1740 - 1760 creation date earliest: 1740 creation date latest: 1760 culture: 18th Century, Mid culture: George II CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified Lambeth Pottery DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 22.3 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Delftware in the Fitzwilliam Museum The Longridge Collection of English Slipware and Delftware, Volume 2, Delftware --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1467_1928.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/mid_C_1467_1928.jpg height: 667 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1467_1928.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/preview_C_1467_1928.jpg height: 333 pixels width: 250 pixels