IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 71474 accession number: C.1184C-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Wednesday 15 July 2020 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 with a double moulded line around the edge. 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. On the right in the scene in the middle of the plate is the Prodigal Son leaning over a table to embrace a woman with bare breasts, who strokes his chin with one hand and holds a wine glass in the other. At the other end of the table sits another bare-breasted woman and a woman in a red dress with a wine glass. On the table is a large ham and in front of it is a bottle labelled ‘SHERRY’. In the background are arches and columns covered in wavy red lines to create a marble effect. Beneath the scene is the title: ‘GAΫ LIFE’. Marked on base with impressed lozenge. object type: Lead-glazed creamware painted 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/71474 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: Fact and Fiction Dutch Decorated English Creamware: Chronology and Style Dutch Decorated English Creamware Creamware Encyclopaedia of British Pottery and Porcelain Marks --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_1184C__1928.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/mid_C_1184C__1928.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_1184C__1928.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/preview_C_1184C__1928.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels