IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 193213 accession number: C.1482B-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 5 February 2013 updated: Tuesday 26 March 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Buff earthenware tin-glazed greenish-white, and painted in blue, green, yellow and red. Circular with sloping rim, shallow sides, and flat centre with recessed base. Decorated in the centre with a Chinese figure seated in an Oriental landscape, and on the rim with four floral sprays alternating with four sprigs. The blue leaves have veins scratched through the colour (sgraffito technique). title: plate NOTES ----- type: history note value: Bought by the vendor in a village near Cambridge; Mr Freeman's sale on 27 January 1904, where bought by 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 collection: J. W. L. Glaisher creditline: Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/193213 PEOPLE ------------------- Chinaman TECHNIQUES ---------- buff earthenware, press-moulded, tin-glazed greenish-white, and painted in blue, green, yellow, and red high-temperature (oxide) colours press-moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- tin-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: English delftware DATING ------ creation date: 1765 - 1775 creation date earliest: 1765 creation date latest: 1775 culture: 18th Century, third quarter culture: George III CREATORS -------- maker: Lambeth High Street Pottery maker: Griffith, Abigail DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 23.3 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Delftware in the Fitzwilliam Museum British Delft at Williamsburg Delftware. The Tin-glazed Earthenware of the British Isles. A Catalogue of the Collection in the Victoria and Albert Museum ---