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Dish: The Royal Oak
Pottery: unidentified London pottery (Probably)
Tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue, turquoise-green, yellow and orange with King Charles II and Colonel Carlos hiding in the Boscobel Oak surrounded by a blue dash border
Buff earthenware, tin-glazed on both sides, and painted in blue, turquoise-green, yellow, and orange. Circular with curved sides, standing on a footring. The front is painted with busts of King Charles II, wearing a hat with a high crown, and Colonel Carlos, hiding in the branches of the Boscobel Oak in which there are also three crowns. Across the trunk of the tree there is a label bearing the words 'The ROYAL OKe'. On either side of the tree there are very much smaller trees. The tree is encircled by concentric bands: a wide yellow, three narrow blue and a wide faint blue. Round the outer edge, there are blue dashes.
History note: Bought from Mr Stoner, London, on 28 November 1904 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, Trinity College, Cambridge by whom lent to the Fitzwilliam Museum in June 1910
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Diameter: 39.2 cm
Height: 7.6 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
17th Century, Late
Charles II
Circa
1660
CE
-
Circa
1680
CE
Probably made in London
Decoration composed of high-temperature colours ( blue, green, yellow, and orange)
buff
Earthenware
white, spotted with blue on the back and having several areas tinged with green
Tin-glaze
Moulding
: Buff earthenware, moulded, tin-glazed on both sides, and painted in blue,turquoise- green, yellow, and orange high-temperature colours; there are three stilt marks on the front, and the footring is pierced by a hole
Tin-glazing
Accession number: C.1425-1928
Primary reference Number: 71982
Old object number: 2198
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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