IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 11974 accession number: C.3-1988 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 18 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: White earthenware printed underglaze in brown, painted overglaze in pale terracotta enamel and gilt. Circular with sloping rim, shallow well and flat centre. Decorated in the centre with 'Brown Water Lily' pattern, comprising on the left, Nymphaea stellata, on the right, Nymphaea lotus, and in the middle, Nelumbium speciosum (Nelumbo nucifera). On the rim, a border of overlapping circles and a gold band. object type: Earthenware plate printed and painted with 'Brown Water Lily' pattern title: plate NOTES ----- type: history note value: Robert Waring Darwin, FRS (1766-1848) and his wife, Susannah (née Wedgwood, d. 1817), Shrewsbury; by descent in the Darwin family to George Pember Darwin (1928-2001), by whom lent to the Fitzwilliam in 1963. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by George Pember Darwin STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/11974 PEOPLE ------------------- Darwin, Robert Darwin, Susannah SUBJECTS ------------------- botany water-lily water-lily TECHNIQUES ---------- Earthenware printed underglaze in brown, painted overglaze in pale terracotta enamel and gilt. moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware DATING ------ creation date: 1807 - 1808 creation date earliest: 1807 creation date latest: 1808 culture: 19th Century, Early# culture: George III CREATORS -------- maker: Wedgwood & Byerley DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 24.8 dimension: Height units: cm value: 2.4 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Endless Forms, Charles Darwin, Natural Science and the Visual Arts CITATIONS -------- Endless Forms, Charles Darwin, Natural Science and the Visual Arts Botanists' Repository Botanical Magazine The Darwin Service and the First Printed Floral Patterns at Etruria Masterpieces of Wedgwood in the British Museum Wedgwood Good European Ceramics, Glass and Enamels Wedgwood, The New Illustrated Dictionary Dr Darwin's Lotus Dessert Service --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa35/C_3_1988_200807_adn21_dc2.jpg height: 930 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa35/mid_C_3_1988_200807_adn21_dc2.jpg height: 454 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa35/C_3_1988_200807_adn21_dc2.jpg height: 930 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa35/preview_C_3_1988_200807_adn21_dc2.jpg height: 227 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/322/807/large_C_3_1988_200807_adn21_mas.jpg height: 930 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/322/807/mid_C_3_1988_200807_adn21_mas.jpg height: 454 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/C.3-1988_200807_adn21_mas.tif surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/322/807/preview_C_3_1988_200807_adn21_mas.jpg height: 227 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: zoom format: pyramid tiff location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/322/807/C_3_1988_200807_adn21_mas.ptif height: 3408 pixels width: 3754 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/625/219/large_C_3_1988_200807_adn21_dc1.jpg height: 976 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/625/219/mid_C_3_1988_200807_adn21_dc1.jpg height: 476 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/625/219/C_3_1988_200807_adn21_dc1.jpg height: 3408 pixels width: 3577 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/625/219/preview_C_3_1988_200807_adn21_dc1.jpg height: 238 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: zoom format: pyramid tiff location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/625/219/C_3_1988_200807_adn21_dc1.ptif height: 3408 pixels width: 3577 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/1/44/168/large_C_3_1988_200807_adn21_mas.jpg height: 930 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/1/44/168/mid_C_3_1988_200807_adn21_mas.jpg height: 454 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/C.3-1988_200807_adn21_mas.tif surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/1/44/168/preview_C_3_1988_200807_adn21_mas.jpg height: 227 pixels width: 250 pixels