IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 72362 accession number: C.1633-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 18 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Buff earthenware, the front tin-glazed very pale blue, and painted and sponged in blue, and painted in pale yellow, brownish-orange, and manganese-purple; the reverse covered with bluish-green lead-glaze. Circular with everted rim, and curved sides, standing on a footring. William III, wearing coronation robes and holding an orb and sceptre, stands on the left of Mary, who is crowned, and holds a fan. Over their heads are the letters ' W M R'. On each side there are sponged trees, and in the foreground there are two humps and two small sponged bushes. Round the outer edge there is a yellow band and a blue dash border object type: tin-glazed earthenware dish painted in blue, yellow, brownish-orange and manganese-purple with figures of William III and Mary II standing between sponged trees. Blue dash border. title: dish NOTES ----- type: history note value: Wills and Simmons, Oxford Street, London from whom purchased 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/72362 PEOPLE ------------------- William III Mary II SUBJECTS ------------------- monarchy TECHNIQUES ---------- buff earthenware, the front tin-glazed very pale blue, and painted and sponged in blue, and painted in pale yellow, brownish-orange, and manganese-purple; the reverse covered with bluish-green lead-glaze with radiating streaks and crawling; two stilt-marks on footring moulding CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: English delftware DATING ------ creation date: 1689 - 1694 creation date earliest: 1689 creation date latest: 1694 culture: 17th Century, Late culture: William III and Mary II CREATORS -------- maker: unidentified London pottery DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 36 dimension: Height units: cm value: 6.8 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: English Delftware Dishes from the Glaisher Collection title: Royal Blue - The Golden Age of Dutch Delftware CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge English Delftware Dishes from the Glaisher Collection Delftware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Koninklijk Blauw. Het mooiste Delfts aardewerk van Willem en Mary. Delfts aardewerk Geschiedenis van een nationaal product Deel VI English Delftware Pottery in the Robert Hall Warren Collection, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford A Collection of English Pottery and Delftware Early English and Continental Ceramics, 19th February 1991 The Collection of Anne H. & Frederick Vogel III, Important English Pottery, Volume one --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1633_1928.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 591 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/mid_C_1633_1928.jpg height: 643 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1633_1928.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 591 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/preview_C_1633_1928.jpg height: 321 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa5/C_1633_1928_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa5/mid_C_1633_1928_283_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa5/C_1633_1928_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa5/preview_C_1633_1928_283_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels