IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 72234 accession number: C.1567-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Friday 16 August 2019 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue and reddish-brown. Circular, with a narrow rim and shallow curved well, standing on a footring. The front is decorated with a scene showing a steep hill with sponged trees around its base surrounded on three sides by the sea. Overhead a man seated on a bar is carried upwards by birds towards a crescent moon at top left. Below, to the left of the rock is a shaped panel inscribed, ‘A Voyage to/The MOON by/Domingo Gonsales/from the Ile of/ Teneriffe’. To the left of it there is a ship under sail flying the English flag and two smaller sailing boats, and in the foreground there are three manned rowing boats. The edge is reddish-brown. The back is signed in blue, ‘I.F./1740/. At the junction of the rim and well there are alternating III and motifs resembling twigs. object type: tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue with a scene entitled ‘A VOYAGE TO/The MOON by/Domingo Gonsales/from the Ile of/ Teneriffe’. title: dish NOTES ----- type: history note value: Mr W.C. Wells, Le Chalet, East Lane, Wembley, who offered it to Dr J.W.L. Glaisher in a letter of 24 May 1915 for £6.10s.0d. Glaisher accepted the offer, and the dish arrived in Cambridge, on 31 May. 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/72234 PEOPLE ------------------- Wells, W. C. SUBJECTS ------------------- moon ship rowing boat bird moon ship rowing boat bird TECHNIQUES ---------- earthenware, moulded, tin-glazed, and painted in cobalt-blue moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- tin-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: English delftware DATING ------ creation date: 1740 - 1740 creation date earliest: 1740 creation date latest: 1740 culture: 18th Century, Mid culture: George II CREATORS -------- maker: Frank, Richard maker: Temple Back Pottery maker: Flower, Joseph DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 33.8 CITATIONS -------- Chats on Old Earthenware Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Delftware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Dated English Delftware Book Review: Delftware in the Fitzwilliam Museum --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1567_1928_20_281_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 602 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/mid_C_1567_1928_20_281_29.jpg height: 631 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1567_1928_20_281_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 602 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/preview_C_1567_1928_20_281_29.jpg height: 316 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1567_1928_20_282_29.jpg height: 693 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/mid_C_1567_1928_20_282_29.jpg height: 456 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1567_1928_20_282_29.jpg height: 693 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/preview_C_1567_1928_20_282_29.jpg height: 228 pixels width: 250 pixels