IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 187796 accession number: C.70-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 24 July 2012 updated: Tuesday 26 March 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Red earthenware, thrown, and decorated on the front with slip-trailing in cream appearing yellow under the lead-glaze; reverse unglazed. Originally circular with narrow sloping rim which is thickened on the underside, sloping sides, and almost flat base. Decorated in the centre is a cross motif, and on the sides with triangular motifs made up of four triangles of graduated size, alternating with double tridents flanked by spirals on stalks. Round the rim is a border of two scalloped lines with the curve in opposite directions which form ovals and rhomboids. object type: earthenware with slip-trailed decoration and lead-glaze title: dish NOTES ----- type: history note value: Alfred Billson collection; sold Sotheby's, 21 December 1908 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/187796 TECHNIQUES ---------- red earthenware, thrown, slip-trailed and lead-glazed on the front only throwing CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware category: slipware category: Metropolitan slipware DATING ------ creation date: 1640 - 1660 creation date earliest: 1640 creation date latest: 1660 culture: 17th Century culture: Charles I culture: Commonwealth CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified Harlow potter DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 29.2 dimension: Height units: cm value: 6.1 CITATIONS -------- Seventeenth Century Pottery Sites at Harlow, Essex The Harlow Pottery Industries ---