IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 72987 accession number: C.200-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 9 July 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Buff earthenware, press-moulded over a hump mould to produce a design in low relief on the interior, and scalloped round the edge with a tool or knife, coated inside with cream slip, and slip-trailed in brown and dark brown under yellowish lead-glaze. The reverse is undecorated. The inside is decorated with a two handled skirted pot or vase filled with stylized sprays of flowers and leaves, with four birds, perhaps peacocks in the spaces above, and below, two S scrolls and the initials' I S' . The rim is encircled by a row of dark brown spots. object type: deep press-moulded earthenware dish coated in cream slip and slip trailed in two shades of brown with a two-handled vase filled with flowers, four birds above, and initials I S below, and lead-glazed title: dish NOTES ----- type: history note value: William Edkins; sold Sotheby, Wilkinson and Hodge, 21 May 21, 1891, lot 34; bought for £2.4s.0d by Thomas Boynton, FSA (d. 1919), Norman House, Bridlington; sold Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent, Charles Butters & Sons, 23 March, 1920, Catalogue of the Early English Pottery and Wedgwood Ware, the property of the late Mr Thomas Boynton, F.S.A. . . . .lot 59; sold to Smith, probably Frank Smith of Manchester for £21; Edward Sheldon, 12 St Paul’s Road, Kersal, Nr. Manchester; offered to Dr Glaisher in a letter of 29 November 1927; arrived in Cambridge on 8 February 1928, and purchased 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/72987 PEOPLE ------------------- Edkins, William Boynton, Thomas SUBJECTS ------------------- bird two-handled vase flower spray bird two-handled vase flower spray TECHNIQUES ---------- press-moulding CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware category: slipware DATING ------ creation date: 1700 - 1730 creation date earliest: 1700 creation date latest: 1730 culture: 18th Century, Early CREATORS -------- maker: Simpson, John, potter DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 34.8 dimension: Height units: cm value: 5.7 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Catalogue of the Early English Pottery and Wedgwood Ware, the property of the late Mr. Thomas Boynton, F.S.A . of Norman House, Bridlington Slipware in the Collection of the Potteries Museum and Art Gallery --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/C_200_1928_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/mid_C_200_1928_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/C_200_1928_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/preview_C_200_1928_281_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/C_200_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/mid_C_200_1928_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/C_200_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/preview_C_200_1928_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels