IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 72531 accession number: C.1723-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 18 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Buff earthenware with bluish tin-glaze painted mainly in blue with a little red and yellow. Circular with a broad rim, shallow sides, and flat centre with recessed base. In the middle there is a two masted. square-rigged trading brig flying the British Merchant flag, inscribed below 'Success to the John & Mary/John Spencer'. The rim has a narrow border of panels of trellis alternating with stylized floral motifs. object type: tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue and a little red with a sailing ship and the inscription 'Success to the Iohn & Mary/Iohn Spencer' title: plate NOTES ----- type: history note value: S. Clark in partnership with Collins, another Cambridge dealer (Collins & Clark) who had bought the plate at some local sale'; for £8.15s. 0d. S. It was shown to Glaisher on behalf of Clark by another Cambridge dealer, Stanley Woolston on 15 November 1922; and was bought for £9.15s. on 21 November 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/72531 TECHNIQUES ---------- buff earthenware, moulded, tin-glazed bluish-white and painted mainly in blue with a little yellow and red high-temperature colour moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- tin-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: English delftware DATING ------ creation date: 1756 - 1765 creation date earliest: 1756 creation date latest: 1765 culture: 18th Century, third quarter# CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified Liverpool pottery DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 23 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Delftware in the Fitzwilliam Museum A Collection of Early English Pottery, XX Fine Art and Collectables --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1723_1928.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 581 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/mid_C_1723_1928.jpg height: 654 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1723_1928.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 581 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/preview_C_1723_1928.jpg height: 327 pixels width: 250 pixels