IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 72272 accession number: C.1591-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Friday 23 October 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Buff earthenware, tin-glazed and decorated with powdered manganese-purple, and painting in blue, and a little brown. Circular with a sloping rim, curved sides, and flat centre, standing on a footring. The front is covered by a manganese-purple ground, except for nine reserved motifs painted in blue. Neptune stands in the middle holding a trident in his right hand and the tail of a dolphin in his left. Above him there is a horizontal fish and a winged Cupid holding a bow and arrow. Below him there are two horizontal fish and to the right and left, two vertical fish. The outer fish in each case being larger than the other. The edge is encircled by a reddish-brown line. The back has alternating blue II and O motifs. object type: tin-glazed earthenware with a powdered manganese ground and reserved figures of Neptune, Cupid and fish painted in blue title: plate NOTES ----- type: history note value: Davis and Davis, 29 High Street, Weston-Super-Mare, from whom bought for £2 10s.on 28 September 1910 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/72272 TECHNIQUES ---------- buff earthenware, tin-glazed and decorated with powdered manganese-purple, and painting in blue, and a little brown; the glaze has some pooling on the back moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- tin-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: English delftware DATING ------ creation date: 1740 - 1750 creation date earliest: 1740 creation date latest: 1750 culture: 18th Century, Mid culture: George II CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified Bristol pottery DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 25.3 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Delftware in the Fitzwilliam Museum Delftware at Historic Deerfield 1600-1800 The Collection of Anne H. & Frederick Vogel III, Important English Pottery, Volume one Coloured grounds on English delftware --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1591_1928.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 577 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/mid_C_1591_1928.jpg height: 659 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1591_1928.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 577 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/preview_C_1591_1928.jpg height: 329 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/C_1591_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/mid_C_1591_1928_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/C_1591_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/preview_C_1591_1928_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels