Current Location: In storage
Maker(s)
Potter:
Unidentified Staffordshire Potter
Entities
Categories
Description
Slipware dish, slip-trailed with an floral arrangement of tulips and rosettes, surrounded by a border of tulips alternating with pointed leaves
Pale reddish-buff earthenware, thrown, coated on the front with white slip, and decorated with slip trailing in dark ochre, brown and white under yellowish lead-glaze. the reverse is undecorated. The circular dish has a broad sloping rim, deep sides, and a flat centre. The flat area is decorated with a symmetrical arrangement of three stems bearing two tulips rising from a lozenge-shaped motif, flanked by leaves, with ten rosettes in the spaces, On each side of the lozenge there is a broad, striped leaf, which covers the sides and extends towards the tulips. The rim is decorated with a border of thirteen tulips alternating with pointed leaves. The outlines of the flowers and leaves are jewelled in dots of white slip.
Notes
History note: Thomas Boynton, FSA (1832-1919), Norman House, Bridlington; sold Hanley, Charles Butters & Sons, 23-24 March 1920,Catalogue of the Early English Pottery and Wedgwood Ware, the property of the late Mr. Thomas Boynton, F.S.A. of Norman House, Bridlington, first day, lot 63; sold for £34 to Frank Stoner on behalf of Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Legal notes
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Measurements and weight
Diameter: 44 cm
Height: 7.5 cm
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed
(1928-12-07)
by
Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
Dating
17th Century, Late or 18th Century, Early
1680
-
1720
School or Style
Baroque
People, subjects and objects depicted
Components of the work
Decoration
composed of
slip
( dark ochre, brown, and white)
Front Surface
Materials used in production
pinkish buff
Earthenware
Techniques used in production
Throwing (pottery technique)
: Pale reddish-buff earthenware, thrown, coated on the front with white slip, and decorated with slip trailing in dark ochre, brown and white under yellowish lead-glaze. the reverse is undecorated.
Inscription or legends present
Inscription present: rectangular white paper stick on label with cut corners and Prussian blue line running round all edges
- Text: 4707/Large slip ware/deep dish, decor-/ated with tulips &/roses on dark/brown (dotted)/& pinkish brown/b. at the Boyn/ton sale at Stoke-/on-Trent/March 23 1920
- Location: In middle of back
- Method of creation: Hand-written in blue-black ink
- Type: Label
References and bibliographic entries
Identification numbers
Accession number: C.249-1928
Primary reference Number: 73591
Old object number: 4770
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Saturday 6 August 2011
Updated: Wednesday 13 November 2024
Last processed: Tuesday 22 July 2025
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
