IDENTIFIERS
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id:	75791
accession number:	C.67-1992

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Wednesday 15 July 2020

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Circular dish with deep curved sides. The whole surface covered with a design in shades of silver-yellow, showing a five-oared galleon with two square sales on a wavy sea. The prow of the ship has a dragon head and the sails are decorated with fantastic birds. The sky is silver-yellow streaked with ruby, suggesting the red sky of sunset or sunrise. There are ruby birds in the sky, two ruby fish in the sea, and two tiny ruby people aboard the galleon. The outside of the dish has three concentric bands of silver-yellow. There are three further bands on the underside, which is flat and glazed, with a thin foot-rim.
object type: White earthenware, glazed and painted with silver, yellow and ruby lustre.
title:	dish

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Uncertain before Sir Ivor and Lady Batchelor


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
creditline: Given by Sir Ivor and Lady Batchelor, 1992

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/75791

PEOPLE
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Passenger, Fred
Iles, Frank

SUBJECTS
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galleon
fish
birds
sea
galleon
fish
birds
sea



TECHNIQUES
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Earthenware coated in white slip, clear-glazed and painted in silver-yellow and ruby lustre.
moulding
TECHNIQUES
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glazing

CATEGORIES
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category: earthenware
category: lustreware
category: Art Pottery

DATING
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creation date:	1877 - 1911
creation date earliest:	1877
creation date latest:	1911
culture:	19th Century, Late-20th Century, Early#
culture:	Victorian / Edwardian

CREATORS
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maker: Passenger, Charles
maker: De Morgan, William Frend
maker: William De Morgan & Co.

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Diameter
units: cm
value: 18.8

dimension: Diameter
units: in
value: 7.4

dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 3.3

dimension: Height
units: in
value: 1.25



CITATIONS
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William De Morgan
William De Morgan Tiles
The Ceramics of William De Morgan
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IMAGES

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