IDENTIFIERS
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id:	71979
accession number:	C.1422-1928

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Monday 19 June 2023

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Buff earthenware, press-moulded, tin-glazed, and  painted in blue, green, yellow, and brownish-orange. Oval, with wide rim, and curved well. The rim is moulded in relief with alternately oval and circular depressions, separated by human masks, and vases of fruit and foliage, and the well with a reclining nude woman and five nude children, one of whom holds a dog. One of the circular depressions at top centre of the rim is nitialled and dated  'D/C M/1651 in blue.
object type: tin-glazed and painted earthenware decorated in relief with a nude woman and five children emblematic of fecundity
title:	dish

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Purchased by Mortlock & Co, Oxford Street, London from an unknown vendor in 1893; purchased by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher from Mortlock & Co on 10 July 1907, for £75.


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
collection:	J. W. L. Glaisher
creditline: Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/71979

PEOPLE
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woman
children

SUBJECTS
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fecundity
sailing ship
dog
leaf (plant material)
fecundity
sailing ship
dog
leaf (plant material)



TECHNIQUES
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earthenware, press-moulded, tin-glazed, and painted in blue, green, yellow, and brownish-orange high-temperature (metallic oxide) colours; many pinholes in the glaze on the reverse
press-moulding
TECHNIQUES
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tin-glazing

CATEGORIES
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category: tin-glazed earthenware
category: English delftware

DATING
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creation date:	1651 - 1651
creation date earliest:	1651
creation date latest:	1651
culture:	17th Century, Mid#
culture:	Commonwealth

CREATORS
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maker: Pickleherring Pottery
maker: Newnham, Richard

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 6.1

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 40.3



EXHIBITIONS HISTORY
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title:	Exhibition of Early English Earthenware
title:	English Delftware Dishes from the Glaisher Collection
title:	Philip Eglin and English Folk Ceramics
CITATIONS
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Illustrated Catalogue of Early English Earthenware
Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge
English Delftware Dishes from the Glaisher Collection
Fitzwilliam Museum Handbooks, English Pottery
Delftware in the Fitzwilliam Museum
Bernard Palissy and London delftware
Sur les traces des producteurs de céramiques à glaçure plombifère et à décor moulé des règnes de Henri IV et de Louis XIII
English Delftware Copies of La Fécondité pattern Dishes attributed to Palissy
London's Delftware Industry, The tin-glazed pottery industries of Southwark and Lambeth
Important English Furniture, Ceramics and Decorations including property from the Estate of Katharine Graham
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