IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 239671 accession number: C.48-2023 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 26 November 2019 updated: Wednesday 30 August 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Large, almost flat circular earthenware dish raised on a foot-rim which has three holes for hanging the dish (wire attached) . Decorated over the upper surface with a moulded and incised design of large pale turquoise flag irises with green and brown leaves, set on a deep blue ground and surrounded by a border of brown scrolls on stippled turquoise ground. The deep blue rim continues over the back to the outside of the foot-rim. Clear glazed inside foot-rim. object type: Buff earthenware, decorated in blue, green, brown and turquoise with flag irises title: dish NOTES ----- type: history note value: Lent by Rita Smythe LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: Smythe creditline: Bequeathed by Ian and Rita Smythe, 2023 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/239671 SUBJECTS ------------------- iris iris CATEGORIES ------ category: earthenware category: Art Pottery DATING ------ creation date: 1887 - 1904 creation date earliest: 1887 creation date latest: 1904 culture: 19th Century, Late-20th Century, Early# CREATORS -------- maker: Burmantofts Pottery maker: Leeds Fireclay Company maker: King, Leonard DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 30.7 dimension: Height units: cm value: 2.8 CITATIONS -------- Encyclopaedia of British Art Pottery 1870-1920 Encyclopedia of Pottery and Porcelain, The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries Burmantofts Pottery Private collection of Burmantofts faience pottery, Thursday 22nd June 2017 ---