IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 72421 accession number: C.1671-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 2 June 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Buff earthenware, tin-glazed greyish-white and painted in blue, green, yellow, and red. The plate is circular with eight arcs round the edge, and has a slightly sloping rim, shallow curved sides and flat centre with recessed base. On the front five reserved panels are delineated by an undulating powdered manganese-purple frame. The central area is painted in polychrome with a man standing beside a fence, a rock, flowers and foliage. Two winged insects flying overhead. The spaces on the rim are occupied by a floral spray. object type: tin-glazed earthenware painted in polychrome with a man in a garden and floral sprays title: plate NOTES ----- type: history note value: Said to have come from the Marquis of Northampton’s collection; a sale at Ashby-de-la Zouche; bought with a pair by Mr Withers, 42 Silver Street, Leicester from whom purchased for 6s.0d. on 13 June 1895 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/72421 SUBJECTS ------------------- Chinaman Chinaman TECHNIQUES ---------- buff earthenware, moulded, and covered with shiny greysh-white tin-glaze which has pooling on the reverse, painted on the front with blue, green, yellow, and red, and powdered with manganese-purple moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- tin-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: English delftware DATING ------ creation date: 1745 - 1755 creation date earliest: 1745 creation date latest: 1755 culture: 18th Century, Mid CREATORS -------- maker: unidentified London pottery DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 22.2 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_1671_1928.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 592 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/mid_C_1671_1928.jpg height: 642 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1671_1928.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 592 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/preview_C_1671_1928.jpg height: 321 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/C_1671_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/mid_C_1671_1928_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/C_1671_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/preview_C_1671_1928_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels