Current Location: Gallery 27 (Glaisher)
Maker(s)
Potter:
Unidentified Staffordshire Potter
Entities
Categories
Description
Earthenware dish, slip coated and slip trailed under lead-glaze, with a crowned king's head flanked by stylized flowers, within a garland, and surrounded by a border of interlaced curving lines
Dark buff earthenware, thrown, coated with cream slip on the interior, slip-trailed in dark ochre and dark brown, 'jewelled' in cream, and lead-glazed; the reverse is undecorated. Circular with a slightly convex sloping rim, deep curved sides and flat centre. The well is decorated with a bewigged and crowned king's head,flanked by formal floral motifs springing from a garland comprising two striped sausage-shaped motifs separated by three diamond-shaped motifs below the head. The outlines of all 'are jewelled' in white slip. On the rim are two interlacing brown and dark brown wavy lines with cream' jewelling' on the dark brown. Two suspension holes are bored through the rim at the top when the head is the right way up.
Notes
History note: Lady Harvey, 19 Marsefield [sic] Gardens, South Hampstead, N.W.; on moving to Scotland sold her collection en bloc to Mr Stoner from whom her slipwares were bought for £650 on 17 June1912 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge.
Legal notes
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Measurements and weight
Diameter: 32.4 cm
Height: 4.7 cm
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed
(1928-12-07)
by
Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
Dating
17th Century, Late
Circa
1680
-
1700
Note
The king's head could represent Charles II, James II or William III.
School or Style
Baroque
People, subjects and objects depicted
Components of the work
Decoration
composed of
slip
( dark ochre, dark brown, white)
Front Surface
composed of
lead-glaze
( yellowish)
Front
Materials used in production
dark buff
Earthenware
Techniques used in production
Throwing (pottery technique)
: Dark buff earthenware, thrown, coated with cream slip on the interior, slip-trailed in dark ochre and dark brown, 'jewelled' in cream, and lead-glazed; the reverse is undecorated. Circular with a slightly convex sloping rim, deep curved sides and flat centre. The well is decorated with a bewigged and crowned king's head,flanked by formal floral motifs springing from a garla
References and bibliographic entries
Identification numbers
Accession number: C.221-1928
Primary reference Number: 73235
Old object number: 3532
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Saturday 6 August 2011
Updated: Tuesday 5 November 2024
Last processed: Tuesday 15 July 2025
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
