IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 227178 accession number: C.3-2019 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 28 May 2019 updated: Monday 29 April 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: White salt-glazed stoneware, the lower part thrown and the upper part press-moulded. The lower part is hollow. It stands on a circular base which slopes outwards to create a foot, and then outwards again for about 2.5 cm before rising vertically to the rim. On opposing wides there is a moulded C-scroll handle. The closed top resembles a plate with a sloping rim rim and shallow well. The rim has a relief border design of panels of trellis diaper and basket work separated by scrolls, broken at 12 o’clock by a rectangular aperture to admit the hot water (originally with a cover now missing). object type: Press-moulded salt-glazed stoneware. Circular with two C-scroll handles on opposing sides. title: warming plate NOTES ----- type: history note value: Bonham's, New Bond Street, London, 8 September 1904, lot purchased for £492.50 by the donor, Mrs Margaret H. Cook LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by Mrs Margaret Cook STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/227178 TECHNIQUES ---------- salt-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: stoneware category: white salt-glazed stoneware DATING ------ creation date: 1755 - 1765 creation date earliest: 1755 creation date latest: 1765 culture: 18th Century, third quarter culture: George II culture: George III CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified Staffordshire factory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 16.3 dimension: Height units: cm value: 6 dimension: Width units: cm value: 26.4 CITATIONS -------- Keeping it Hot. The Story of a Collection of Hot Water Warming Plates White Salt-glazed Stoneware of the British Isles ---