IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 71942 accession number: C.1410-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Friday 16 June 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Buff earthenware, press-moulded, tin-glazed and painted in blue, green, yellow and brown. Oval moulded in relief in the middle with a reclining nude woman emblematic of Fecundity, and five nude infants, one of whom carries a dog over his shoulder. In the background there is tree with fruit, a smoking tower or chimney, the base of a fluted column, a balustrade and a hanging curtain behind the woman. The rim is moulded with four draped human masks and four baskets of fruit alternating with circular and oblong depressions painted respectively with sailing ships and artemisia leaves over circular motifs. These are enclosed by yellow borders with a rope-like design. object type: press-moulded and tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue, green, yellow and brown title: dish NOTES ----- type: history note value: Bought at Sotheby's in December 1898 for about £23.10s.0d. 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/71942 SUBJECTS ------------------- fecundity woman child curtain dog woman child curtain dog TECHNIQUES ---------- buff earthenware, press-moulded, tin-glazed, and painted in blue, green, yellow and brown high temperature (metallic oxide) colours; the glaze on the back has many pin-holes and some blue smudges press-moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- tin-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: English delftware DATING ------ creation date: 1650 - 1665 creation date earliest: 1650 creation date latest: 1665 culture: 17th Century, third quarter# culture: Commonwealth culture: Charles II CREATORS -------- maker: Pickleherring Pottery maker: Newnham, Richard DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 6.5 dimension: Length units: cm value: 49.5 dimension: Width units: cm value: 40.8 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Loan Exhibition of Pottery and Porcelain held in the Fitzwilliam Museum title: English Delftware Dishes from the Glaisher Collection CITATIONS -------- A Catalogue of A Loan Exhibition of Pottery and Porcelain held in the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, May 26th-June 14th, 1902 Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge English Delftware Dishes from the Glaisher Collection Delftware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Bernard Palissy and London delftware London's Delftware Industry, The tin-glazed pottery industries of Southwark and Lambeth --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1410_1928.jpg height: 575 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/mid_C_1410_1928.jpg height: 378 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1410_1928.jpg height: 575 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/preview_C_1410_1928.jpg height: 189 pixels width: 250 pixels