IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 71880 accession number: C.1370-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 26 March 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Buff earthenware with bluish tin-glaze painted in blue; the reverse is unevenly glazed, with many blow holes. The circular dish has a wide slightly sloping rim, and shallow curved sides, and stands on a footring. The well is decorated with Chinese style flowering plants and birds, and a fence within a narrow border of trellis diaper on the sides. Round the edge there are six formal plant motifs, and two smaller ones on opposing sides. The reverse is inscribed within the footring T/IH/November 5 1746'. object type: tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue with Chinese style flowering plants, birds and a hedge title: dish NOTES ----- type: history note value: J.E. Hodgkin (d. 1912) by 1891; S, 4 December 1903, Hodgkin Sale, lot 281; sold to S. Fenton, Cranbourn Street for £8; his 1906 Catalogue; bought from a catalogue of Fenton's for £10 on 14 March 1906 by 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/71880 SUBJECTS ------------------- bird fence bird fence TECHNIQUES ---------- uff earthenware with bluish tin-glaze painted in blue; the reverse is unevenly glazed, with many blow holes tin-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: English delftware DATING ------ creation date: 1746 - 1746 creation date earliest: 1746 creation date latest: 1746 culture: 18th Century, Mid culture: George II CREATORS -------- maker: unidentified London pottery DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 61.9 CITATIONS -------- Examples of Early English Pottery, named, dated and inscribed Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Dated English Delftware Delftware in the Fitzwilliam Museum --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1370_1928.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 756 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/mid_C_1370_1928.jpg height: 503 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1370_1928.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 756 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/preview_C_1370_1928.jpg height: 251 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1370_1928_20_28CENTRE_29.jpg height: 633 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/mid_C_1370_1928_20_28CENTRE_29.jpg height: 416 pixels width: 499 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1370_1928_20_28CENTRE_29.jpg height: 633 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/preview_C_1370_1928_20_28CENTRE_29.jpg height: 208 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1370_1928_20_28BACK_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 751 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/mid_C_1370_1928_20_28BACK_29.jpg height: 506 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1370_1928_20_28BACK_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 751 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/preview_C_1370_1928_20_28BACK_29.jpg height: 253 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1370_1928_20_28DETAIL_29.jpg height: 591 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/mid_C_1370_1928_20_28DETAIL_29.jpg height: 389 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1370_1928_20_28DETAIL_29.jpg height: 591 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/preview_C_1370_1928_20_28DETAIL_29.jpg height: 194 pixels width: 249 pixels