IDENTIFIERS
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id:	71229
accession number:	C.1050-1928

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Tuesday 18 February 2025

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Cream-coloured earthenware, press-moulded, and painted underglaze in blue. The plate is circular with a wavy shell edge, shallow curved sides and flat centre. In the middle, a Chinese man is seated holding a parasol beside a willow tree. To the left, there is a fence, a flowering branch, and an insect, and in the foreground a small plant. The rim is decorated with four floral sprays which extend over the shell edge.
object type: Cream-coloured earthenware plate with shell edge, painted underglaze in blue with a seated Chinese man holding a parasol in a garden, and four floral sprays
title:	plate

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Sotheby's, 13 June, 1906, part of lot 273; bt by S.G. Fenton for £1.0.0. on behalf of Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
collection:	J. W. L. Glaisher
creditline: Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/71229

PEOPLE
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Chinese man

SUBJECTS
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parasol
willow tree
parasol
willow tree



TECHNIQUES
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cream-coloured earthenware, press-moulded, and painted underglaze in blue
moulding
TECHNIQUES
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lead-glazing

CATEGORIES
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category: lead-glazed earthenware
category: creamware

DATING
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creation date:	1775 - 1790
creation date earliest:	1775
creation date latest:	1790
culture:	18th Century, Late
culture:	George III

CREATORS
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maker: uncertain

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Diameter
units: cm
value: 25



CITATIONS
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Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge
Painted in Blue, Underglaze Blue Painted Earthenwares 1775-1810
The magic of British shell-edged earthenware, 1775-1860
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