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Plate: C.1351-1928

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Current Location: In storage

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Pottery: uncertain

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Description

Octagonal tin-glazed earthenware plate, painted in blue with a panel flanked by scrollwork and dragons, enclosing the inscription, '4 whit wyne and mery jels'

Notes

History note: Mr H. Ernest Hyde, Warstone Lane, Birmingham; bought in London in 1926 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge

Legal notes

Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest

Measurements and weight

Width: 21.2 cm

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr

Note

Formerly attributed to Lambeth, Surrey. Originally the fourth plate in a set of 'Merry Man' plates, each of which was inscribed with a line from a verse: 'What is a merry man?/Let him do what he can/To enetertain his guests/With wine and merry jests./But if his wife doth frown/All merriment goes down.'

Components of the work

Decoration composed of high-temperature colour ( blue from cobalt)

Materials used in production

Tin-glaze
Earthenware

Techniques used in production

Moulding : Earthenware, moulded, tin-glazed, and painted in blue
Tin-glazing

Inscription or legends present

  • Text: 4/whit wyne/and mery jels
  • Location: On front in centre
  • Method of creation: Painted in blue
  • Type: Inscription

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Identification numbers

Accession number: C.1351-1928
Primary reference Number: 71852
Old object number: 4913

Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Tuesday 30 April 2024

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts

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