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Dish: William III
Pottery: unidentified London pottery (Probably)
Tin-glazed earthenware dish decorated with William III, initialled W R above, crowned, and wearing coronation robes, standing between half trees; yellow band and blue dash border.
Buff earthenware, the front tin-glazed, and painted in blue, dark green, yellow, orange, and manganese-purple; the back covered with thin bluish lead-glaze. Circular with everted rim and curved sides, standing on a footring. Decorated with a standing figure of William III bewigged, and wearing a crown, an ermine-lined robe, garters and shoes with bows, and holding an orb and sceptre. Below his hands is an unidentified object,with scales, perhaps a purse. Inscribed on either side above his head are the letters W and R. On each side there are by dark green half fir-trees, and in the foreground broad green and yellow stripes. The rim is encircled by a yellow band and blue dashes. On the reverse, indistinctly inscribed '16 . 94'.
History note: A.E. Clarke; sold Sotheby's, 18 June 1919, lot 58; sold to Mr Stoner for £45; sold by Mr Stoner for £50 on 3 July 1919 to Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Diameter: 34.6 cm
Height: 7.9 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
17th Century, Late
William III (1750-1702)
Production date:
dated
AD 1694
: dated
Probably made at one of the London potteries
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( blue, dark green, yellow, orange, and manganese-purple)
Back
composed of
lead-glaze
( bluish)
Front
composed of
tin-glaze
buff Earthenware
Moulding : Earthenware, moulded, the front tin-glazed, and painted in blue, dark green, yellow, orange, and manganese-purple; the back covered witha pale slip and a thin bluish lead-glaze which has crawled in places; on stilt mark on footring
Accession number: C.1630-1928
Primary reference Number: 72354
Old object number: 4063
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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