IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 72399 accession number: C.1657-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 25 February 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Buff earthenware, the front tin-glazed and painted in blue, green, two shades of yellow and red; the reverse covered with lumpy white tin-glaze. Circular with deep curved sides, and slightly everted rim, standing on a broad footring. Painted in the middle with a swimming mermaid blowing a horn between trees on rocks, and more rocks in the foreground. The edge is encircled by groups of three blue dashes alternating with red Ms object type: tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue, green, two shades of yellow and red with a swimming mermaid blowing a horn between rocks and trees, surrounded by a blue strokes and red rounded Ms title: dish NOTES ----- type: history note value: A dealer in St Ives, Huntingdonshire from whom purchased by Mr Roe of Cambridge who sold it on 25 July 1906 to 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/72399 PEOPLE ------------------- mermaid SUBJECTS ------------------- horn tree horn tree TECHNIQUES ---------- buff earthenware, the front tin-glazed and painted in blue, green, two shades of yellow and red high-temperature (metallic oxide) colours; the reverse covered with lumpy white tin-glaze moulded TECHNIQUES ---------- tin-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: English delftware DATING ------ creation date: 1725 - 1740 creation date earliest: 1725 creation date latest: 1740 culture: 18th Century, second quarter# culture: George II CREATORS -------- maker: Brislington Pottery maker: Unidentified Bristol pottery DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 33.4 dimension: Height units: cm value: 7.4 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 The Mermaid Mystique Delftware in the Fitzwilliam Museum --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1657_1928.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 597 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/mid_C_1657_1928.jpg height: 637 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1657_1928.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 597 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/preview_C_1657_1928.jpg height: 318 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa5/C_1657_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa5/mid_C_1657_1928_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa5/C_1657_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa5/preview_C_1657_1928_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels