IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 15381 accession number: C.1-1976 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 7 January 2025 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Panel of eight large central tiles surrounded by a border of twelve rectangular tiles and four corner tiles. Earthenware, slip-coated, trace-transfered in 'Persian' colours, and clear-glazed. The central panel, painted in blue, turquoise-blue, green, yellow,pale orange, and brown on a white ground, shows two facing peacocks amid foliage, bordered above and below by fish swimming in a deep blue sea. The borders consist of Islamic, Persian style arches with fleur-de-lis and swirls, in light blue, dark blue and manganese red. title: tile panel NOTES ----- type: history note value: Purchased from Michael Whiteway, London W8 LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/15381 PEOPLE ------------------- Ricardo, Halsey Debenham, Ernest SUBJECTS ------------------- peacocks fish foliage fleur-de-lis sea peacocks fish foliage fleur-de-lis sea TECHNIQUES ---------- earthenware, slip-coated, decorated with a traced-transfer design and clear-glazed slip-coating CATEGORIES ------ category: earthenware category: Art Pottery DATING ------ creation date: 1888 - 1898 creation date earliest: 1888 creation date latest: 1898 culture: 19th Century, Late CREATORS -------- maker: William De Morgan & Co. maker: De Morgan, William Frend DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Length units: cm value: 87.3 dimension: Width units: cm value: 51 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: The Wonder of Birds CITATIONS -------- Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. The Annual Reports of the Syndicate and of the Friends of the Fitzwilliam for the Year ending 31 December 1975 Arts and Crafts in Britain and America Treasures of the Fitzwilliam Museum Fitzwilliam Museum Handbooks, English Pottery The Designs of William De Morgan Earth and Fire William De Morgan Victorian Art Pottery William De Morgan Tiles William De Morgan (1839-1917): an exhibition organised by the Friends of Leighton House, Leighton House, 18 May-24 June, London: De Morgan Foundation, 197 --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa14/C_1_1976.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 450 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa14/C_1_1976.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 450 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa14/C_1_1976.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 450 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa14/preview_C_1_1976.jpg height: 422 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/426/101/large_C_1_1976_1_201310_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 1634 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/426/101/mid_C_1_1976_1_201310_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 798 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/C.1-1976_1_201310_mfj22_mas.tif surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/426/101/preview_C_1_1976_1_201310_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 399 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: zoom format: pyramid tiff location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/426/101/C_1_1976_1_201310_mfj22_mas.ptif height: 6066 pixels width: 3802 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/623/217/large_C_1_1976_1_201310_mfj22_dc1.jpg height: 1735 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/623/217/mid_C_1_1976_1_201310_mfj22_dc1.jpg height: 847 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/C.1-1976_1_201310_mfj22_dc1.jpg surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/623/217/preview_C_1_1976_1_201310_mfj22_dc1.jpg height: 423 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: zoom format: pyramid tiff location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/623/217/C_1_1976_1_201310_mfj22_dc1.ptif height: 5478 pixels width: 3234 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/1/35/246/large_C_1_1976_1_201310_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 1634 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/1/35/246/mid_C_1_1976_1_201310_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 798 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/C.1-1976_1_201310_mfj22_mas.tif surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/portfolio/F25982D9_7CB9_CFFF_028E_8BBFC531887C/1/35/246/preview_C_1_1976_1_201310_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 399 pixels width: 250 pixels