IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 71471 accession number: C.1184-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 29 April 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Pale cream-coloured earthenware covered in a clear lead-glaze and painted overglaze with coloured enamels. The plate has a six-lobed wavy rim bordered by a double moulded line. Each lobe is painted with red, yellow and blue bands around the edge and yellow scrolls, green leaves and a red cross in the centre. The scene in the middle of the plate shows the Prodigal Son and his brother receiving their patrimony from their father. The father is sat at a table on which is a jar labelled ‘4600 DUCATS’ and a pile of coins. He holds bills labelled ‘2000’, ‘400’, ‘300’ and ‘100’. The two brothers stand to his left and reach out to take the money. In the background, there are arches and columns, painted in imitation of red-veined marble; the tabletop also displays this marble effect. Beneath the scene is the title: ‘THE PRODIGAL SON’. Marked on the based with an impressed lozenge. object type: Lead-glazed creamware decorated in enamels with scene from the parable of the Prodigal Son. title: plate NOTES ----- type: history note value: provenance unidentified before Mr Stoner, London, who sold as part of set of six plates (C.1184-1928 – C.1184E-1928) for £26 on 13 January 1919 to Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: J. W. L. Glaisher creditline: Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/71471 PEOPLE ------------------- Prodigal Son TECHNIQUES ---------- press-moulded cream-coloured earthenware covered in a clear lead-glaze and painted overglaze in coloured enamels press-moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- painting overglaze TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware category: creamware DATING ------ CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified Pottery maker: unidentified enameller DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 25.1 dimension: Height units: cm value: 2.7 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Collections of Dutch decorated English Creamware Dutch Decorated English Creamware Dutch Decorated English Creamware: Fact and Fiction Dutch Decorated English Creamware: Chronology and Style Creamware Encyclopaedia of British Pottery and Porcelain Marks --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_1184_1928.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/mid_C_1184_1928.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_1184_1928.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/preview_C_1184_1928.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels