Current Location: In storage
Maker(s)
Production:
Unidentified
Entities
Categories
Description
Slipware dish decorated with a couple taking tea and the date 1840
Reddish-buff earthenware, thrown, coated on the front with dark brown slip, decorated with an incised design painted in green, yellow, white and brown, and with chattering on a white slip under lead-glaze. Circular, with a flat centre, steeply sloping sides and an outward-slanting rim. In the middle is a tea-table shaped like a goblet, on the right of which a woman is seated on a ladder-backed chair with a leaf-shaped bush behind it, and on the left, a man stands facing towards the woman with a small tree behind him. The woman wears a brown dress, a white fichu round her neck and a white cap. The man wears a yellow high-crowned hat, a green jacket, brown pantaloons and yellow shoes. Below them there is a rectangular area of horizontal and vertical lines over green and yellow, perhaps representing grass. Below, in white slip, is the date '1840'. At the top of the sides here is a band of white sip with five rows of chattering over it. The outward sloping rim is decorated with ten groups of white slip strokes of different lengths, separated by ten of three brown strokes. The exterior of the sides is glazed, and the base unglazed.
Notes
History note: Thun, Mrs Born-Straub, from whom purchased in December 1903 b Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Legal notes
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Measurements and weight
Diameter: 32.5 cm
Height: 5 cm
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed
(1928-12-07)
by
Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
Dating
19th Century, Mid
Production date:
dated
AD 1840
Components of the work
Front
composed of
slip
( dark brown, pale brown, and white)
Decoration
composed of
oxide colours
( green, yellow)
Surface Except Base
composed of
glaze
( presumed lead-glaze)
Materials used in production
reddish-bff
Earthenware
Techniques used in production
Throwing (pottery technique)
Inscription or legends present
- Text: 1840
- Location: On front below design
- Method of creation: Painted in white slip
- Type: Date
References and bibliographic entries
Identification numbers
Accession number: C.1930-1928
Primary reference Number: 72887
Old object number: 1975
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Saturday 6 August 2011
Updated: Tuesday 20 January 2026
Last processed: Tuesday 20 January 2026
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
