These images are provided for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons License (BY-NC-ND). To license a high resolution version, please contact our image library who will discuss fees, terms and waivers.
Download this imageCreative commons explained - what it means, how you can use our's and other people's content.
Production: Alcora factory
Tin-glazed earthenware painted in green, greenish-yellow, pale orange, and dull pink, and dark brown. The plate has a a rim with six indentations in the edge, a deep, sloping rim, and flat centre on which are fourteen moulded and applied fruits. The plate has green and orange bands around the rim, below which is an orange garland outlined in brown, comprising circular stylized flowerheads with swags of fabric between them. The greenish-yellow fruit have dull pink streaks radiating from a brown spot at the top to about half-way down their sides. The glaze has 'crawled' in one place on the edge of the rim. There are three peg marks on the back of the rim.
History note: Puttick & Simpson, London, 6 March, 1903, Mr Lovett’s Collection; bought by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge. However, Rackham (1935), states that it came from the Riaqno Collection, bought in Eastbourne in 1904.
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Diameter: 23.5 cm
Height: 3.2 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, third quarter#
18th Century, Late
Circa
1765
CE
-
1785
CE
The Alcora factory was founded in 1727 by the 9th Duke of Aranda, Buenaventura Ximénez de Urrea, Abarca de Boléa. On his death in 1742 it was inherited by his son, Pedro Pablo.
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( green, greenish-yellow, orange, dull pink, and dark brown)
Fruit
Plate
Accession number: C.2138-1928
Primary reference Number: 76621
Old object number: 1433
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Plate" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/76621 Accessed: 2024-12-22 15:19:43
To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
{{cite web|url=https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/76621
|title=Plate
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2024-12-22 15:19:43|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
To call these data via our API (remember this needs to be authenticated) you can use this code snippet:
https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/api/v1/objects/object-76621
To use this as a simple code embed, copy this string:
<div class="text-center">
<figure class="figure">
<img src="https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa1/C_2138_1928_281_29.jpg"
alt="Plate"
class="img-fluid" />
<figcaption class="figure-caption text-info">Plate</figcaption>
</figure>
</div>
Updates about future exhibitions and displays, family activities, virtual events & news. You'll be the first to know...
