IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 72371 accession number: C.1640-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 18 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Dark buff earthenware tin-glazed pale duck-egg blue on both sides, and painted in blue, dark yellow, and manganese-purple. Circular with deep curved sides and slightly everted rim, standing on a narrow footring. Painted in the middle with two men, Captain Henry Walrond and Sir Edward Phillips holding the joined twins Aqila and Prisila [sic] Herring, flanked by their names 'AQILA' and 'PRISILA'. Below the men's feet painted in manganese-purple are the words ‘HEAREIS GAIN O THE BROOM’, and round the edge, between narrow manganese bands, 'BEHOLD TO PARSONS : THAT : ARE : RECONSILD : TO : ROB : THE : PARENTS : AND : TO : KEEP : THE : CHILD'. object type: earthenware tin-glazed pale duck-egg blue on both sides, and painted on the front in blue, dark yellow, and manganese-purple. Captain Henry Walrond and Sir Edward Phillips holding the joined twins Aqila and Prisila [sic] Herring, surrounded by an inscription title: dish NOTES ----- type: history note value: John Eliot Hodgkin (d. 1912); sold by the executors to Wilfred Harding, London from whom purchased in September 1913 for £120 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/72371 PEOPLE ------------------- Hodgkin, J. E. Harding, Wilfred Walrond, Henry, Captain Phillips, Edward, Sir Aqila Prisila TECHNIQUES ---------- tin-glaze CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: English delftware DATING ------ creation date: 1680 - 1680 creation date earliest: 1680 creation date latest: 1680 culture: 18th Century, Late culture: Charles II CREATORS -------- maker: Brislington Pottery maker: Bennett, Sarah, II DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 32.3 dimension: Diameter units: in value: 12.75 dimension: Height units: cm value: 6.8 dimension: Height units: in value: 2.75 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: English Delftware Dishes from the Glaisher Collection CITATIONS -------- Examples of Early English Pottery, named, dated and inscribed Illustrated Catalogue of Early English Earthenware Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Delftware from Brislington English Delftware Dishes from the Glaisher Collection The Isle-Brewers conjoined twins of 1680 Delftware in the Fitzwilliam Museum --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1640_1928.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 583 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/mid_C_1640_1928.jpg height: 652 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_1640_1928.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 583 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/preview_C_1640_1928.jpg height: 326 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/C_1640_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_1640_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_1640_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_1640_1928_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels