IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 38180 accession number: C.44-1992 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Saturday 27 November 2021 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Soft-paste porcelain 'strawberry plate', moulded in relief with strawberries and leaves, and covered with pale blueish-grey glaze. Painted in blue, green, yellow, pale red, purple, grey and black enamel colours. Circular with shaped edge and shallow well; recessed base. Decorated in the middle with a bird standing on an island with a butterfly and a bird flying overhead; over the moulded leaves, three butterflies (or moths) and sprigs. object type: Soft-paste porcelain 'strawberry leaf plate', decorated in polychrome enamels. title: plate NOTES ----- type: history note value: Dr and Mrs Hugh Statham; Dr Statham died 1967; Mrs Statham died 1970; their daughter, Miss Beryl Statham by whom lent anonymously in 1988. Bequeathed by Miss Statham, 1990, accepted by H.M. Government in lieu of Inheritance Tax and allocated to the Fitzwilliam Museum LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Bequeathed by Miss Statham, accepted by H.M. Government in lieu of Inheritance Tax and allocated to the Fitzwilliam Museum STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/38180 SUBJECTS ------------------- butterfly bird moth leaves island butterfly bird moth leaves island TECHNIQUES ---------- soft-paste porcelain, moulded in relief with strawberries and leaves, and covered with pale blueish-grey glaze, and painted in blue, green, yellow, pale red, purple, grey and black enamel colours press-moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- glazing (coating) CATEGORIES ------ category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1754 - 1757 creation date earliest: 1754 creation date latest: 1757 culture: 18th Century, Mid# culture: George II CREATORS -------- maker: Longton Hall Porcelain Manufactory maker: Littler, William DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 23.2 CITATIONS -------- Longton Hall Porcelain A Celebration of the English Country House There is Still Life at Longton Hall ---