IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 15271 accession number: C.69-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Wednesday 16 August 2017 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Ridge tile. Red earthenware with mottled greenish-yellow glaze over a white slip. Of inverted V-shaped section, with at one end a finial in the form of a globe, with a crown on the top and round the middle two cherubs, a griffin and a fourth ornament now missing. There is a hole in the outer side of the globe where the ornament is missing (if there was one there originally). title: tile NOTES ----- type: history note value: The Manor House, Ilfracombe, built 1561, now demolished; purchased privately from Pilton, nr. Barnstaple, 1924 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 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/15271 PEOPLE ------------------- cherubs SUBJECTS ------------------- crown Globe griffin crown Globe griffin TECHNIQUES ---------- red earthenware with mottled greenish-yellow glaze glazing (coating) CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware DATING ------ creation date: 1600 - 1700 creation date earliest: 1600 creation date latest: 1700 culture: 17th Century# CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 34.2 dimension: Length units: cm value: 49.0