IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 72938 accession number: C.199-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 21 January 2025 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Dark buff earthenware, press-moulded over a hump mould to produce a design in relief on the interior, coated with cream slip, and slip-trailed in brown, under yellowish lead-glaze. The dish is circular with deep curved sides, and a crinkled edge produced by making adjacent impressions with an oval implement or stick. The reverse is undecorated, and has a series of circular impressions around the middle. The interior surface is filled by an incorrect version of the Royal Arms below a crown, supported on the left by a crowned lion and on the right by a unicorn. It which shows in the first quarter, a lion rampant above three lions passant, in the second, chequers, in the third, a harp, and in the fourth, three fleur-de-lis arranged two over one. Below the shield, an uncrowned lion bounds to the right between two scrolls. object type: press-moulded slipware dish decorated with the Royal Arms supported by a lion and unicorn, and another lion below it title: dish NOTES ----- type: history note value: Sotheby's, 16 March, 1928, lot 190B; bought by the auctioneer for £70 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/72938 SUBJECTS ------------------- heraldry coat of arms lion unicorn coat of arms lion unicorn TECHNIQUES ---------- dark buff earthenware, press-moulded over a hump mould to produce a design in relief on the interior, coated with cream slip, and slip-trailed in brown, under yellowish lead-glaze. The dish is circular with deep curved sides, and a crinkled edge produced by making adjacent impressions with an oval implement or stick. The reverse is undecorated press-moulding CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware category: slipware DATING ------ creation date: 1725 - 1750 creation date earliest: 1725 creation date latest: 1750 culture: Second quarter of 18th century culture: George I culture: George II CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified Pottery DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 39.5 dimension: Height units: cm value: 7.6 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Burslem Potters in Cumbria Around 1700 Good European Ceramics & Glass --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/C_199_1928.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/mid_C_199_1928.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/C_199_1928.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/preview_C_199_1928.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels