IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 73163 accession number: C.215-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Wednesday 16 October 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Pinkish-buff earthenware, thrown, coated on the front with cream slip, and slip-trailed in medium and dark brown, and cream under lead-glaze; the reverse is undecorated. Circular with a wide steeply sloping rim, and a well with curved sides and flat centre. The well is occupied by a pelican facing to the viewer's right, with three chicks feeding at her breast. The space in front of the pelican's head is occupied by a stylized leaf, and below her tail is a four-petalled flower. The rim is decorated with six bewigged male heads alternating with five roundels enclosing a large central spot surrounded by eight smaller spots, except for one circle which has seven. The sequence is broken at the bottom by a rectangular panel enclosing the name 'RALPH : SIMPSON'. All the outlines, except for the five circles are 'jewelled' with trailed cream spots. object type: Earthenware dish slip trailed with the 'Pelican in her Piety' surrounded by a border of alternating bewigged male heads and spotted roundels, interrupted at the bottom by the name, 'RALPH : SIMPSON'. title: dish NOTES ----- type: history note value: A lady owner at New Malden; Sotheby's, 28 November 1924, lot 51a; purchased by Mr Stoner for £195 on behalf of 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/73163 PEOPLE ------------------- Simpson, Ralph SUBJECTS ------------------- self-sacrifice pelican in her piety man's head pelican in her piety man's head TECHNIQUES ---------- Pinkish buff earthenware, thrown, coated on the front with cream slip, and slip-trailed in medium and dark brown, and cream under yellowish lead-glaze; the reverse is undecorated throwing (pottery technique) CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware category: slipware DATING ------ creation date: 1670 - 1680 creation date earliest: 1670 creation date latest: 1680 culture: 17th Century, Late CREATORS -------- maker: Simpson, Ralph DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 46.5 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Magdalene Odundo in Cambridge CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge English Ceramics English Slipware Dishes 1650-1850 Slipware, Shire Album 297 Magdalene Odundo in Cambridge Signs & Symbols in Christian Art Catalogue of the Collection of English Pottery in the Department of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography of the British Museum Quaint Old English Pottery Pots with Structure and Purpose: A Chance Encounter, a Pottery by Chance --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/C_215_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_215_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_215_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_215_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_215_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_215_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_215_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_215_1928_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels