IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 73027 accession number: C.203-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 16 July 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Dark buff earthenware, press-moulded over a hump mould to produce a design in relief with rouletted edges on the interior, coated with cream slip, and slip-trailed in brown and dark brown under yellowish lead-glaze. The exterior is undecorated. Circular with deep curved sides and a pie crust edge impressed with a circular tool or stick. In the middle, is a sun face within a dark brown circle with rouletted edges, surrounded by alternately brown and dark brown triangular rays, another dark brown circle with rouletted edges, and a border of dark brown triangular rays alternating with plain rays each of which has two brown spots over it. object type: slipware dish decorated with a sun face surrounded by two rows of triangular rays in brown and dark brown slips title: dish NOTES ----- type: history note value: Sidney Hand, 6a Grafton Street, Bond Street, London, W. from whom bought for £20 on 13 May1910 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/73027 SUBJECTS ------------------- sun face sun face TECHNIQUES ---------- dark buff earthenware, press-moulded over a hump mould to produce a relief design on the interior with rouletted edges, coated with cream slip, and slip trailed in brown and dark brown under yellowish lead-glaze. The reverse is undecorated. The edges were impressed with a circular tool or stick to produce a pie crust effect. press-moulding CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware category: slipware DATING ------ creation date: 1700 - 1740 creation date earliest: 1700 creation date latest: 1740 culture: 18th Century, first half CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified Staffordshire Potter DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 35.5 dimension: Height units: cm value: 6.2 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/C_203_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_203_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_203_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_203_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_203_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_203_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_203_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_203_1928_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels