IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 72169 accession number: C.1529-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 30 April 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Buff earthenware, tin-glazed bluish-white and painted in blue and a little brownish-red. Circular wth a wide rim, shallow sloping sides,and flat centre with recessed base. The middle is decorated with ships in an estuary bombarding a fort on the left. On the right there is a distant church and other buildings. The rim is decorated with pendant leaves, alternating with three different stylized plants. The edge is encircled by a brownish- red line. On the back there are three undulating lines. object type: tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue with ships in an estuary bombarding a fort title: plate NOTES ----- type: history note value: Sir Walter Durnford (1847-1926), Provost of King's College, Cambridge; sold by his executors to Stanley Woolston at Cambridge; bought from Stanley Woolston on 27 July 1926 for £2.10s.0d. 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/72169 PEOPLE ------------------- Durnford, Walter, Sir SUBJECTS ------------------- Taking of Portobello ship Taking of Portobello ship TECHNIQUES ---------- buff earthenware, moulded, tin-glazed bluish-white and painted in blue and a little brownish-red moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- tin-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: English delftware DATING ------ creation date: 1740 - 1745 creation date earliest: 1740 creation date latest: 1745 culture: 18th Century, second quarter culture: George II CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified Liverpool pottery DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 21.5 dimension: Diameter units: in value: 8.5 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Delftware in the Fitzwilliam Museum English Delftware Pottery in the Robert Hall Warren Collection, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford English delftware and the influence of Chinese blue and white porcelain, 1730-50 --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1529_1928_20_281_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 574 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/mid_C_1529_1928_20_281_29.jpg height: 662 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1529_1928_20_281_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 574 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/preview_C_1529_1928_20_281_29.jpg height: 331 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1529_1928_20_282_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 751 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/mid_C_1529_1928_20_282_29.jpg height: 506 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1529_1928_20_282_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 751 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/preview_C_1529_1928_20_282_29.jpg height: 253 pixels width: 250 pixels