IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 72012 accession number: C.1443-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Wednesday 10 February 2021 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Dark buff earthenware, tin-glazed duck-egg blue, and painted in cobalt-blue and manganese-purple, with a little yellow; the reverse, covered with greenish lead-glaze. Circular with curved sides and slightly everted rim, standing on a footring. On the front are a cat, an owl and a monkey wearing top-knots and tippets, the last holding a mirror. Above is the title of a ballad: ` The Alo¬mode or ye Maidens Mode Admir'd & Cont¬inue'd By ye Ape Owl & Mistris Puss', and the date, 1688. Below are the verses of the ballad. The lower part of the design is painted with triangles to resemble a tiled floor. The edge is encircled by a narrow manganese-purple line and blue dashes. On the back, in a square, is a cross imposed over a fainter St Andrew cross. object type: earthenware, tin-glazed duck-egg blue and painted in blue, manganese-purple and yellow title: dish NOTES ----- type: history note value: Sir Ashton Lever's Museum Leverianum, Leicester House, London, probably 1774-88; James Parkinson, exhibited at the Rotunda, south end of Blackfriars Bridge, London, until 1806; sold by King and Lochee, Catalogue of the Leverian Museum, May 5 1806 and following 65 days, on the eleventh day of the sale, Friday, 15 May, lot 1204 for 18s.0d.; sold to Dent. By c. 1910, Francis Bennett Goldney, M.P. for Canterbury (d. 1918); sold Puttick & Simpson, London, 4 March 1920, Decorative porcelain, pottery, silver plate, antique furniture and other works of art, lot 145; purchased for £325.10.0 by the dealer, Frank Stoner for Dr 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/72012 PEOPLE ------------------- Lever, Ashton, Sir SUBJECTS ------------------- cat owl monkey mirror Ballad costume cat owl monkey mirror Ballad costume CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: English delftware DATING ------ creation date: 1688 - 1688 creation date earliest: 1688 creation date latest: 1688 culture: 17th Century, Late culture: James II CREATORS -------- maker: Brislington Pottery DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 39 dimension: Height units: cm value: 8.3 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Exhibition of Early English Earthenware title: English Delftware Dishes from the Glaisher Collection title: Treasured Possessions from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment CITATIONS -------- Illustrated Catalogue of Early English Earthenware Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Two Pottery Speciments from the Museum Leverianum Delftware from Brislington English Delftware Dishes from the Glaisher Collection Dated English Delftware Delftware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Treasured Possessions from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment Sir Ashton Lever of Alkrington, and his Museum 1729-1788 Ceramic Discoveries in London's Eighteenth Century Leverian Museum Top Knots and Lower Sorts: Print and Promiscuous Consumption in the 1690s --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa30/c_1443_1928_1_201011_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 973 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa30/mid_c_1443_1928_1_201011_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 526 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa30/c_1443_1928_1_201011_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 973 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa30/preview_c_1443_1928_1_201011_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 263 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa30/c_1443_1928_2_201011_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 1022 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa30/mid_c_1443_1928_2_201011_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 501 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa30/c_1443_1928_2_201011_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 1022 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa30/preview_c_1443_1928_2_201011_mfj22_mas.jpg height: 250 pixels width: 250 pixels