IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 73835 accession number: C.2637-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 18 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Buff earthenware, moulded, tin-glazed and painted in blue, bluish-green, and yellow. The circular dish has a wavy, everted edge, gadrooned rim and deep well with a convex centre, and stands on a footring. The well is decorated with half-length figures of William III and Mary II with initials 'WR . MR' below, and the date, '1693' above. Both are crowned. William wears a voluminous wig, a cravat and armour, and Mary has ear-length hair, and wears a necklace, and a dress with an indecently low neckline. On either side of them there is a curving tulip on a stem with several leaves. The curved rim is encircled by a continuous stem of tulips and daisies flanked by tendrils and separated by foliage. object type: tin-glazed earthenware dish painted in blue, green and yellow with half-length figures of King William III and Mary II, dated 1693, surrounded by a floral border title: dish NOTES ----- type: history note value: George Stoner, London; from whom bought for £14 on 13 December 1909 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/73835 PEOPLE ------------------- William III Mary II SUBJECTS ------------------- monarchy tulip tulip TECHNIQUES ---------- buff earthenware, moulded, tin-glazed, and painted in blue, bluish-dark green, and yellow high temperature (oxide) colours moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- tin-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: Dutch Delftware DATING ------ creation date: 1693 - 1693 creation date earliest: 1693 creation date latest: 1693 culture: 17th Century, Late culture: William III and Mary II CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 34.4 dimension: Height units: cm value: 7.8 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Royal Blue - The Golden Age of Dutch Delftware CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge The Age of William III & Mary II: power, politics and patronage, 1688-1702 Koninklijk Blauw. Het mooiste Delfts aardewerk van Willem en Mary. Delfts aardewerk Geschiedenis van een nationaal product Deel VI --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/C_2637_1928_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/mid_C_2637_1928_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/C_2637_1928_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/preview_C_2637_1928_281_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels