IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 72486 accession number: C.1711-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Friday 23 October 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Tin-glazed earthenware, with a powdered manganese ground, and five reserves painted in blue. Circular, with a sloping rim, and shallow well. The central reserve encloses a shield bearing a figure of Apollo with Python, and in the four others there are 'mimosa' flowers and leaves. Below the shield is the place name and date 'Wincanton/1738'. title: plate NOTES ----- type: history note value: Mr Frank Stoner, London from whom purchased on 5 May, 1920 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, 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/72486 PEOPLE ------------------- Apollo SUBJECTS ------------------- python python TECHNIQUES ---------- buff earthenware, covered with thick and irregular greyish tin-glaze, and painted in blue high-temperature colour; five peg marks on the back and three much smaller peg-like scars moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- tin-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: English delftware DATING ------ creation date: 1738 - 1738 creation date earliest: 1738 creation date latest: 1738 culture: 18th Century, second quarter# culture: George II CREATORS -------- maker: Wincanton Pottery DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 22.5 CITATIONS -------- English Pottery, Its Development from Early Times to the End of the Eighteenth Century Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Wincanton Delftware An Illustrated Encyclopaedia of British Pottery and Porcelain English Delftware Dated English Delftware Wincanton at Winterthur? Delftware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Wincanton Revisited - 50 years after Lipski, A Reappraisal of the 18th Century Wincanton Tinglaze Pottery Coloured grounds on English delftware --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1711_1928.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 590 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/mid_C_1711_1928.jpg height: 644 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1711_1928.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 590 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/preview_C_1711_1928.jpg height: 322 pixels width: 250 pixels