IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 73172 accession number: C.217-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 5 November 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Dark pinkish-buff earthenware, thrown, coated with cream slip on the front, slip-trailed in dark ochre and dark brown, and 'jewelled' in white slip, under yellowish lead glaze; the reverse is undecorated and appears red. The dish is circular with a wide, slightly convex sloping rim, deep curved sides and flat centre. The well is decorated with full-length figures of a king wearing a crown and on the viewer's left of him, an attendant who has his left arm raised as if to indicate or touch the crown.. There are two flowers on either side of the king's head, and a wavy-edged leaf in the space to the right of the king and to the left of the attendant. The ground below their feet is indicated by a spotted wavy line above a shallow curved band. The rim is decorated with a continuous trellis border, interrupted at the bottom by a panel slip-trailed in dark brown with the name 'GEORGE:TAYLOR'. object type: earthenware dish slip trailed with a king and attendant, surrounded by a trellis border on the rim, interrupted by the name ‘GEORGE TAYLOR’ title: dish NOTES ----- type: history note value: Marc Louis Solon; J.W. Ford, J.P, Enfield Old Park; Sotheby's, 22 May, 1908, lot 43; sold for £53 to Mr George Stoner from whom purchased for that figure on 25 May 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/73172 PEOPLE ------------------- King SUBJECTS ------------------- man crown man crown TECHNIQUES ---------- dark pinkish-buff earthenware, thrown, coated with cream slip on the front, slip-trailed in dark ochre and dark brown, and 'jewelled' in white slip, under yellowish lead glaze; the reverse is undecorated and appears red throwing (pottery technique) CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware category: slipware DATING ------ creation date: 1670 - 1690 creation date earliest: 1670 creation date latest: 1690 culture: 17th Century, Late CREATORS -------- maker: uncertain DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 44.8 dimension: Height units: cm value: 7.2 CITATIONS -------- 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 English Slipware Dishes 1650-1850 A Collector's History of English Pottery The Frank P. and Harriet C. Burnap Collection of English Pottery in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery 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_217_1928.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/mid_C_217_1928.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/C_217_1928.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/preview_C_217_1928.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels