IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 72995 accession number: C.201-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Friday 27 December 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Buff earthenware, press-moulded over a hump mould to produce a design in relief on the interior, coated in cream slip, and slip-trailed in brown and dark brown under yellowish lead-glaze; the exterior is undecorated. The dish is circular with deep curved sides, and a pie crust border made by adjacent impressions of an oval implement. In the middle there are three arches, supported on columns with sturdy bases, resembling a reredos or screen in a church. The central archway encloses a rectangular panel with lettering in relief: 'Remember/Lots Wife/Luke:17:32/1726'. Above is a standing woman wearing a bell-shaped skirt, flanked by angels with trumpets. On either side of the woman's head are the intials S and M in relief. The sides of the dish are decorated with three rows of trailed dark brown spots with smaller brown spots in the spaces. object type: Press-moulded slipware dish decorated with a woman and two angels above three arches, the central one enclosing a rectangular frame bearing the words 'Remember/Lots Wife/Luke 17:32/1726' title: dish NOTES ----- type: history note value: Marc-Louis Solon Collection; sold Hanley, Charles Butters & Sons, 26-28 November 1912, Solon Sale, lot 77; bought for £39 by Mr George (?) Stoner for 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/72995 PEOPLE ------------------- Solon, Marc-Louis angel Lot's wife TECHNIQUES ---------- buff earthenware, press-moulded over a hump mould to produce a design in relief on the interior, coated in cream slip, and slip-trailed in brown and dark brown under yellowish lead-glaze; the exterior is undecorated. The crimped edge was produced by adjacent impressions of an implement or stick. press-moulding CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware category: slipware DATING ------ creation date: 1726 - 1740 creation date earliest: 1726 creation date latest: 1740 culture: 18th Century, second quarter culture: George I culture: George II CREATORS -------- maker: Malkin, Samuel DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 35.5 dimension: Height units: cm value: 6.4 CITATIONS -------- The Art of the Old English Potter Examples of Early English Pottery, named, dated and inscribed Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge An Illustrated Encyclopaedia of British Pottery and Porcelain Samuel Malkin and the 'SM' Slipware Dishes I English Slipware Dishes 1650-1850 Slipware, Shire Album 297 Slipware in the Collection of the Potteries Museum and Art Gallery English Slip-decorated Earthenware at Williamsburg The Longridge Collection of English Slipware and Delftware, Volume 1, Slipware --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/C_201_1928_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/mid_C_201_1928_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/C_201_1928_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/preview_C_201_1928_281_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/C_201_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/mid_C_201_1928_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/C_201_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa11/preview_C_201_1928_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels