IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 11764 accession number: C.2A-1969 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Wednesday 15 July 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Cream-coloured earthenware soup plate. In the middle is a five-layer Tudor rose made up of wavy ribbons and true lovers' knots, over the centre of which are the initials 'HR' with below to left 'VII', to right 'VIII' and below them, 'VI'. On the rim are ten ‘h’s, each formed by a dragon with its neck through a cleft stake.The underside is undecorated and has a narrow raised foot-rim. There are rough (pencil?) circles around the rim and inner design, perhaps to indicate where gold might be added. object type: Earthenware, printed underglaze in black, glazed and gilded. title: soup plate NOTES ----- type: history note value: Commissioned by King's College, Cambridge LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by Dr A.N.L. Munby, King's College STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/11764 PEOPLE ------------------- King's College, Cambridge Henry VI Henry VII Henry VIII Royal College of Art SUBJECTS ------------------- dragons Tudor rose dragons Tudor rose TECHNIQUES ---------- Earthenware, moulded and printed moulding CATEGORIES ------ category: earthenware category: creamware DATING ------ creation date: 1958 - 1958 creation date earliest: 1958 creation date latest: 1958 culture: 20th Century, Mid culture: Elizabeth II CREATORS -------- maker: Josiah Wedgwood & Sons maker: Guyatt, Richard Talbot DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 23.2 dimension: Height units: cm value: 3.1 CITATIONS -------- Fitzwilliam Museum Handbooks, English Pottery Wedgwood Wedgwood Ceramics 1846-1959 Wedgwood of Etruria and Barlaston Wedgwood, The New Illustrated Dictionary Wedgwood Ware --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa6/C_2A_1969.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa6/mid_C_2A_1969.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa6/C_2A_1969.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa6/preview_C_2A_1969.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels