IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 138113 accession number: C.72A-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Thursday 30 June 2016 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Two joined fragments of a dish. Thrown red earthenware, the front slip-trailed in cream and lead-glazed, the reverse unglazed. Originally circular with thick walls, and thickened rim on the underside, sloping sides and flat base. With wavy lines trailed round the outer edge. The piece on the left is trailed '1638' followed by the upper part of an 'F'. The piece on the right is trailed 'EA' and part of an 'R', with below part of a stem flanked by curling tendrils. Comes with another fragment (C.72B-1928), which may be from the same dish title: fragment of dish NOTES ----- type: history note value: Dug up in London. James Smith Collection, Whitechapel, London; sold Sotheby's, 19 December 1901, James Smith sale, in a box of fragments; Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/138113 TECHNIQUES ---------- throwing CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware category: slipware category: Metropolitan slipware DATING ------ creation date: 1638 - 1638 creation date earliest: 1638 creation date latest: 1638 culture: 17th Century, Mid culture: Charles I CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified Pottery DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Length units: cm value: 22.9 dimension: Width units: cm value: 11.8 CITATIONS -------- The Harlow Pottery Industries ---