IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 72368 accession number: C.1639-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Friday 4 October 2019 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Earthenware, tin-glazed bluish-white on the front, painted in blue, green, yellow, and red, and sponged in green; the back covered with bluish-grey tin-glaze with blue speckles. Circular with deep curved sides and everted rim, standing on a footring. Painted in the middle with a standing king, probably George I, crowned, and wearing coronation robes, and holding an orb in his right hand and a sceptre in his left. On either side are sponged three-tiered trees with pairs of groups of three red strokes at the bottom and between the tiers. The edge is encircled by two narrow blue bands, and blue dashes. object type: tin-glazed earthenware dish painted with a king, probably George I, crowned, and carrying an orb and sceptre, standing between sponged trees; blue dash border. title: dish NOTES ----- type: history note value: Purchased in 1898 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/72368 PEOPLE ------------------- George I TECHNIQUES ---------- buff earthenware, the front tin-glazed bluish-white and painted in blue, green, yellow, and red, and sponged in green; the back is covered with bluish-grey tin-glaze with many blue speckles tin-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: English delftware DATING ------ creation date: 1714 - 1727 creation date earliest: 1714 creation date latest: 1727 culture: 18th Century culture: George I CREATORS -------- maker: Norfolk House DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 34 dimension: Height units: cm value: 7.2 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: English Delftware Dishes from the Glaisher Collection 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 English Delftware in the Bristol Collection English Delftware Pottery in the Robert Hall Warren Collection, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford 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_1639_1928.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 611 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/mid_C_1639_1928.jpg height: 622 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1639_1928.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 611 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/preview_C_1639_1928.jpg height: 311 pixels width: 250 pixels