IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 72361 accession number: C.1632-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 25 February 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Buff earthenware, the front tin-glazed and painted in blue, green, yellow, brownish-orange, and manganese-purple; the back, covered with bluish-white tin-glaze. Circular with a sloping rim, and curved well, standing on a footring. (Archer 1997, shape A). Decorated on the front with a standing figure of William III, crowned and wearing coronation robes, and holding an orb and sceptre. The initials W and R are written on either side of his head. On the extreme right and left there are half trees, and overhead a flock of birds. Round the edge there is a yellow band and blue dashes object type: tin-glazed earthenware dish decorated with William III, crowned, and wearing coronation robes, standing between half trees. W R on each side of his head. Border of blue dashes over yellow band title: dish NOTES ----- type: history note value: earlier provenance unknown; 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/72361 PEOPLE ------------------- William III SUBJECTS ------------------- crown orb sceptre tree crown orb sceptre tree TECHNIQUES ---------- buff earthenware, the front tin-glazed and painted in blue, green, yellow, brownish-orange, and manganese-purple; the back, covered with a pale slip under bluish-white tin-glaze with green spots, and considerable crawling; one stilt- mark on footring which has a single hole tin-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: English delftware DATING ------ creation date: 1694 - 1702 creation date earliest: 1694 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 dimension: Height units: cm value: 7 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: English Delftware Dishes from the Glaisher Collection CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge English Delftware Dishes from the Glaisher Collection Delftware in the Fitzwilliam Museum The Frank P. and Harriet C. Burnap Collection of English Pottery in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery Important English Delftware --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1632_1928.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 580 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/mid_C_1632_1928.jpg height: 655 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1632_1928.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 580 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/preview_C_1632_1928.jpg height: 328 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa5/C_1632_1928_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa5/mid_C_1632_1928_283_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa5/C_1632_1928_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa5/preview_C_1632_1928_283_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels