IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 72280 accession number: C.1597-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 25 March 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Buff earthenware, thrown, tin-glazed bluish-white, and decorated inside with painting in blue, and outside with powdered manangese-purple. The circular bowl has deep curved sides, and stands on a footring. Inside it is decorated with a central medallion framed by a wide and a narrow blue band, enclosing a half-length figure of John Wilkes between tied back curtains. Outside the medallion is the inscription, 'Wilkes. And. Honest:Iuries. No; Mad 45' (d of Mad raised), surrounded by a narrow circle. The rim is encircled by a wide and a narrow band. The exterior is powdered overall in manganes-purple, except for the area within the footring. object type: tin-glazed earthenware decorated with powdered manganese-purple and painting in blue title: punch bowl NOTES ----- type: history note value: Acquired at Haddenham, Cambridgeshire by an unknown dealer who sold it to Mr Jolley of 11 Bridge Street, Cambridge, from whom purchased for £5 on 27 January 1910 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/72280 PEOPLE ------------------- Wilkes, John TECHNIQUES ---------- painting TECHNIQUES ---------- throwing TECHNIQUES ---------- glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: English delftware category: commemorative ware DATING ------ creation date: 1764 - 1768 creation date earliest: 1764 creation date latest: 1768 CREATORS -------- maker: unidentified London pottery DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 26.5 dimension: Height units: cm value: 10.2 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_1597_1928_20_282_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/mid_C_1597_1928_20_282_29.jpg height: 667 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1597_1928_20_282_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/preview_C_1597_1928_20_282_29.jpg height: 333 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1597_1928_20_281_29.jpg height: 559 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/mid_C_1597_1928_20_281_29.jpg height: 368 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1597_1928_20_281_29.jpg height: 559 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/preview_C_1597_1928_20_281_29.jpg height: 184 pixels width: 250 pixels