IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 40511 accession number: C.8-1990 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 30 April 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Soft-paste porcelain dinner plate, painted in blue, red, green, yellow ochre, grey and black enamel colours, and gilt. Circular with shaped edge, wide sloping rim and shallow well, standing on a foot rim. In the centre, a medallion containing the arms of Ricardo impaling Duff with the motto TEN (Tiens) FIRME, surrounded by the words ARMA IOANNIS LUDOVICI (?) RICARDO ET KATARINAE UXORIS EIUS in blue gothic letters between narrow blue and gold bands. On the sides of the well, a dentilated gold band, a wide band between two plain gold and an anthemion like border; round the edge of the rim, an anthemion like gilt border, a plain gold band, a wide red area and a gold foliate border. The reverse is undecorated. object type: Soft-paste porcelain dinner plate, decorated with a medallion containing the arms of Ricardo impaling Duff, a motto, and flowers in polychrome enamels and gilt. title: dinner plate NOTES ----- type: history note value: Gabor Cossa (Mrs Joan Eve), Trumpington Street, Cambridge LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Purchased from Gabor Cossa (Mrs Joan Eve) with the J. R. V. Smyth Fund. STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/40511 SUBJECTS ------------------- arms arms TECHNIQUES ---------- porcelain painted in blue, red, green, yellow ochre, grey and black enamel colours, and gilt glazing (coating) CATEGORIES ------ category: porcelain category: soft-paste porcelain DATING ------ creation date: 1841 - 1855 creation date earliest: 1841 creation date latest: 1855 culture: 19th Century, Mid culture: Victorian CREATORS -------- maker: John Ridgway & Co. DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 25.7 CITATIONS -------- Fitzwilliam Museum, Annual Report 1991 A Ridgway Plate in the Fitzwilliam Museum The Gentleman's Magazine, vol. XVI The Gentleman's Magazine, vol. XIII The Dictionary of National Biography McCalmont's Parliamentary Poll Book of all Elections 1832-1918 The Rise of the Staffordshire Potteries Illustrated Guide to Ridgway Porcelains ---