IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 71476 accession number: C.1184E-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. The scene in the centre of the plate shows the Prodigal Son’s return home. He is bent on one knee before two standing men. One of them reaches out to embrace the Prodigal Son while the other hands him a cloak. A small dog jumps at his knee and behind him stand two women. In the background are arches and columns painted in imitation of red-veined marble. Beneath the scene is the title: ‘REPENTANCE’. Marked on the 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.118-1928 – 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/71476 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_1184E_1928.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/mid_C_1184E_1928.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_1184E_1928.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/preview_C_1184E_1928.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels