IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 72895 accession number: C.194-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 21 January 2025 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Dark buff earthenware, press-moulded to produced the design in relief on the interior, coated with cream slip, slip-trailed in brown and dark brown, and lead-glazed. The reverse is undecorated and has groups of indentations around the middle where the clay was pressed into the mould. The dish is octagonal with sloping sides. In the middle is a stylized carnation in a circular medallion surrounded by four pomegranates alternating with four fleur-de-lis. Below the medallion are the initials I S in relief. Round the edge is a row of dots and eight circles linked by scalloped lines. object type: Octagonal slipware dish decorated on the front with a design of pomegranates and fleur-de-lis, and with the initials I S title: dish NOTES ----- type: history note value: Purchased in Banbury in 1903 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/72895 SUBJECTS ------------------- pomegranate fleur-de-lis carnation pomegranate fleur-de-lis carnation TECHNIQUES ---------- dark buff earthenware, press-moulded to produced the design in relief on the interior, coated with cream slip, slip-trailed in brown and dark brown, and lead-glazed. The reverse is undecorated and has groups of indentations around the middle where the clay was pressed into the mould. press-moulding CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware category: slipware DATING ------ creation date: 1700 - 1720 creation date earliest: 1700 creation date latest: 1720 culture: 18th Century, Early CREATORS -------- maker: Simpson, John, potter DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 5.6 dimension: Width units: cm value: 35.5 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge English Slipware Dishes 1650-1850 The Frank P. and Harriet C. Burnap Collection of English Pottery in the William Rockhill Nelson Gallery Slipware in the Collection of the Potteries Museum and Art Gallery English Slip-decorated Earthenware at Williamsburg The Longridge Collection of English Slipware and Delftware, Volume 1, Slipware The Design of English Slipware, 1600-1720 Wallpapers: a history and illustrated catalogue of the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum Fine British Ceramics Early English and Continental Ceramics The Rous Lench Collection, Volume One, English Pottery and Porcelain 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/aa4/C_194_1928_281_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa4/mid_C_194_1928_281_29.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa4/C_194_1928_281_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa4/preview_C_194_1928_281_29.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa4/C_194_1928_282_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa4/mid_C_194_1928_282_29.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa4/C_194_1928_282_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa4/preview_C_194_1928_282_29.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels