IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 76430 accession number: C.949-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 30 April 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: White earthenware, moulded, covered with blue tinted lead-glaze, and painted in polychome enamels. In the centre is a spill vase formed from a grey-green column surmounted by a red and gold royal crown. On the front of the column is an oval shield bearing the Royal arms surrounded by the Garter ribbon inscribed ‘HOMI [sic] . SOIT . QUI . MAL . Y. PENSE’, above a rose and thistle. It is supported by the lion and the unicorn, each on its hind legs and standing on a scrolling ribbon inscribed with the motto, ‘DIEU ET MON DROIT’. The inscriptions are incised and coloured black. The group is brightly coloured with enamels over a blue-tinged glaze and stands on a green kidney-shaped cushion supported on a shallow rectangular base coloured to imitate marble. The underside is recessed and glazed. On the back, ‘WALTON’ is impressed on a scroll in relief. object type: Lead glazed earthenware spill vase in the shape of the Royal Arms supported by a lion and unicorn, painted in polychrome enamels title: spill vase NOTES ----- type: history note value: Captain Reynolds Collection, London, sold to Messrs Gill and Reigate. Bought by Mr George Stoner, London, from whom purchased in 1910 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge. Dr Glaisher paid £125 for this and fourteen other pieces, as part of a purchase of 35 figures and figure groups. 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, 1928 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/76430 PEOPLE ------------------- George IV (1820-30) William IV (1830-37) SUBJECTS ------------------- heraldry lion unicorn coat-of-arms crown lion unicorn coat-of-arms crown TECHNIQUES ---------- Earthenware, moulded and modelled, lead glazed and painted with polychrome enamels. moulded CATEGORIES ------ category: earthenware category: lead-glazed earthenware DATING ------ creation date: 1820 - 1830 creation date earliest: 1820 creation date latest: 1830 culture: 19th Century, Early CREATORS -------- maker: John Walton maker: Walton, John DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 15.2 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge English Earthenware Figures 1740-1840 Staffordshire Chimney Ornaments Staffordshire Potters 1781-1900. A Comprehensive List Assembled from all known Contemporary Directories with Selected Marks Staffordshire Figures 1780-1840, Volume 2: Equestrians, Entertainers, Personalities, Biblical Figures & Sportsmen, People, Passions, Pastimes, and Pleasures, Staffordshire Figures 1810-1835 Fine British Pottery and Porcelain, 18 May 2011 --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_949_1928_281_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/mid_C_949_1928_281_29.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_949_1928_281_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/preview_C_949_1928_281_29.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_949_1928_282_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/mid_C_949_1928_282_29.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_949_1928_282_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/preview_C_949_1928_282_29.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels