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Dish: Queen Anne: C.1689-1928

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Titles

Dish: Queen Anne

Maker(s)

Production: Limekiln Lane Pottery (Probably)

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Description

Tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue, green, yellow and red

Buff earthenware, press-moulded, tin-glazed, and painted in blue, green, yellow, and red. Circular with thirty lobes enclosing thirty smaller lobes in the well, and a convex centre standing on a vestigial foot. The front is decorated in the middle with a circular medallion enclosing a bust of Queen Anne flanked plants and red initials A and R (Anna Regina). This is surrounded by radiating leaf motifs, and round the outer edge there is a border of almond-shapes in yellow and red reserved in a blue ground, with small green trefoil leaf motifs within it.

Notes

History note: Mr J.M. Botibol, 28-30 Hanway Street, London on 25 July 1918 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge

Legal notes

Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest

Measurements and weight

Diameter: 28.8 cm
Height: 5 cm

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr

Dating

18th Century, Early
Queen Anne
1702 CE - 1714 CE

Note

Dishes of this shape were derived from metalwork, and were more common in the Netherlands and German states than in England

People, subjects and objects depicted

Materials used in production

Paint
Tin-glaze
Earthenware

Techniques used in production

Painting
Glazing
Press moulding

Inscription or legends present

  • Text: A R
  • Location: On front
  • Method of creation: Painted in red
  • Type: Inscription

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Identification numbers

Accession number: C.1689-1928
Primary reference Number: 72456
Old object number: 4055

Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Tuesday 30 April 2024

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts

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