IDENTIFIERS
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id:	187796
accession number:	C.70-1928

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Tuesday 24 July 2012
updated:	Wednesday 20 February 2019

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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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
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type: history note
value: Alfred Billson collection; sold Sotheby's, 21 December 1908


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
collection:	J. W. L. Glaisher
creditline: Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest

STABLE URL
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url:	http://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/187796





TECHNIQUES
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red earthenware, thrown, slip-trailed and lead-glazed on the front only
throwing

CATEGORIES
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category: lead-glazed earthenware
category: slipware
category: Metropolitan slipware

DATING
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creation date:	1640 - 1660
creation date earliest:	1640
creation date latest:	1660
culture:	17th Century
culture:	Charles I
culture:	Commonwealth

CREATORS
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maker: Unidentified Harlow potter

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Diameter
units: cm
value: 29.2

dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 6.1



CITATIONS
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Seventeenth Century Pottery Sites at Harlow, Essex
The Harlow Pottery Industries
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