IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 72355 accession number: C.1631-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Friday 14 March 2025 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Buff earthenware, moulded, the front tin-glazed, painted in blue, yellow, brownish-orange, and manganese-purple, and sponged in blue; the back, covered with greenish lead-glaze. Circular with everted rim, and curved sides, standing on a footring. Decorated with William III riding to the left on a rearing horse. He is bewigged, and wears a crown and ermine-lined robe. Above his head are the letters K W. On the right there is a sponged tree; on the left, a low fence and a sponged tree; and in the foreground two low humps, and sponged bushes.The rim is encircled by a yellow line and blue dashes. object type: tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue, yellow, orange, and manganese-purple, with William III riding to the left on a rearing horse between blue sponged trees; border of a yellow band and blue dashes title: dish NOTES ----- type: history note value: Mr Stoner, London from whom purchased for £10 on 7 February 1908 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, 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/72355 PEOPLE ------------------- William III SUBJECTS ------------------- riding crown horse (animal) crown horse (animal) riding TECHNIQUES ---------- buff earthenware, moulded over a hump mould, the front tin-glazed bluish-white and painted in blue, yellow, brownish-orange, and manganese-purple, and sponged in blue; the back, covered with a pale slip and greenish lead-glaze which has extensive crawling moulding CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: English delftware DATING ------ creation date: 1689 - 1702 creation date earliest: 1689 creation date latest: 1702 culture: 17th Century, Late culture: William III (1750-1702) CREATORS -------- maker: unidentified London pottery DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 35.4 dimension: Height units: cm value: 7.6 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: English Delftware Dishes from the Glaisher Collection title: The Dutch Connection title: Royal Blue - The Golden Age of Dutch Delftware CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge English Delftware Dishes from the Glaisher Collection The Dutch Connection: The Founding of the Fitzwilliam Museum Delftware in the Fitzwilliam Museum The Lipski Collection of English and Irish Delftware Part I A Collection of English Pottery and Delftware Important English Pottery from a European Private Collection Delftware. The Tin-glazed Earthenware of the British Isles. A Catalogue of the Collection in the Victoria and Albert Museum The Bertram K. Little and Nina Fletcher Litlle Collection, Part II British Delft at Williamsburg The Collection of Anne H. & Frederick Vogel III, Important English Pottery, Volume one --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1631_1928.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 577 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/mid_C_1631_1928.jpg height: 659 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1631_1928.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 577 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/preview_C_1631_1928.jpg height: 329 pixels width: 250 pixels