IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 72742 accession number: C.184-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 21 January 2025 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Buff earthenware press-moulded over a hump mould to create a design in relief on the interior, and impressed round the edge with a striated tool or shell. The inside is coated with cream slip, and slip-trailed in orange-brown and very dark brown under yellowish lead-glaze. Two suspension holes were pierced at the top before firing. The reverse is undecorate, and has a large pale rectangular area where a label was formerly attached. The inside is decorated with a central medallion enclosing the bust of a man three-quarters to left, with a garland below him and a curved curtain on either side. This is surrounded by a wide border of twelve adjacent rosettes in relief and a narrower border of circles in squares and scallops impressed with tiny circles. object type: press-moulded earthenware dish decorated with cream, reddish-brown and dark brown slips under lead-glaze. Decorated with a central medallion containing the bust of a man, surrounded by borders of rosettes and semicircles. title: dish NOTES ----- type: history note value: Thomas Bateman (1821-61), Lomberdale House, Derbyshire; Sotheby's, 14-15 June, 1893, The Bateman Heirlooms, lot 368; Thomas Boynton, Norman House, Bridlington; sold Stoke-on-Trent, Charles Butters, 23 March 1920, Catalogue of the Early English Pottery and Wedgwood Ware, the property of the late Mr. Thomas Boynton, FSA of . . ., lot 67; bought at a hammer price of £20 by Mr Frank Stoner on behalf of 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/72742 SUBJECTS ------------------- bust bust TECHNIQUES ---------- buff earthenware press-moulded over a hump mould to create a design in relief on the interior, and impressed round the edge with a striated tool or shell. The inside is coated with cream slip, and slip-trailed in orange-brown and very dark brown under yellowish lead-glaze. Two suspension holes were pierced at the top before firing. The reverse is undecorated. press-moulding CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware category: slipware DATING ------ creation date: 1680 - 1720 creation date earliest: 1680 creation date latest: 1720 culture: 17th Century, Late culture: 18th Century, Early CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified Staffordshire Potter DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 35.7 dimension: Height units: cm value: 4.7 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Exhibition of Early English Earthenware CITATIONS -------- A descriptive catalogue of the antiquities and miscellaneous objects preserved in the Museum of Thomas Bateman at Lomberdale House, Derbyshire The Bateman Heirlooms. Catalogue of the First Portion of the Valuable and Important Collection of Works of Art & Antiquity formed by the late W. Bateman, Esq. & T. Bateman, Esq. Of Lomberdale House, Youlgrave, Co. Derby Catalogue of the Collection of English Pottery in the Department of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography of the British Museum Illustrated Catalogue of Early English Earthenware Catalogue of the Early English Pottery and Wedgwood Ware, the property of the late Mr. Thomas Boynton, F.S.A . of Norman House, Bridlington Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Slipware in the Collection of the Potteries Museum and Art Gallery --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa4/C_184_1928.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa4/mid_C_184_1928.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa4/C_184_1928.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa4/preview_C_184_1928.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels