Current Location: In storage
Maker(s)
Potter:
Simpson, John, potter
(Possibly)
Entities
Categories
Description
Deep press-moulded earthenware dish coated in cream slip and slip trailed in two shades of brown with a two-handled vase filled with flowers, four birds above, and initials I S below, and lead-glazed
Buff earthenware, press-moulded over a hump mould to produce a design in low relief on the interior, and scalloped round the edge with a tool or knife, coated inside with cream slip, and slip-trailed in brown and dark brown under yellowish lead-glaze. The reverse is undecorated. The inside is decorated with a two handled skirted pot or vase filled with stylized sprays of flowers and leaves, with four birds, perhaps peacocks in the spaces above, and below, two S scrolls and the initials' I S' . The rim is encircled by a row of dark brown spots.
Notes
History note: William Edkins; sold Sotheby, Wilkinson and Hodge, 21 May 21, 1891, lot 34; bought for £2.4s.0d by Thomas Boynton, FSA (d. 1919), Norman House, Bridlington; sold Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent, Charles Butters & Sons, 23 March, 1920, Catalogue of the Early English Pottery and Wedgwood Ware, the property of the late Mr Thomas Boynton, F.S.A. . . . .lot 59; sold to Smith, probably Frank Smith of Manchester for £21; Edward Sheldon, 12 St Paul’s Road, Kersal, Nr. Manchester; offered to Dr Glaisher in a letter of 29 November 1927; arrived in Cambridge on 8 February 1928, and purchased by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge.
Legal notes
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Measurements and weight
Diameter: 34.8 cm
Height: 5.7 cm
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed
(1928-12-07)
by
Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
Dating
18th Century, Early
Circa
1700
-
1730
People, subjects and objects depicted
Components of the work
Decoration
composed of
slip
( cream, brown, and dark brown)
Inside Surface
composed of
lead-glaze
( yellowish)
Inside Decoration
Materials used in production
buff
Earthenware
Techniques used in production
Press-moulding
Inscription or legends present
Inscription present: slip-trailed in yellowish-brown
- Text: I S
- Location: On front on either side of vase and scrolls near lower edge
- Method of creation: Slip-trailed
- Type: Initials
Inscription present: circular white paper stick on label with serrated edge
- Text: SLIPWARE underlined/COCKP HILL
- Location: On back
- Method of creation: Hand-written in black ink
- Type: Label
Inscription present: rectangular discoloured white paper stick on label with cut corners taken from a catalogue
- Text: From the Edkins collection, handwritten/32 An old Slip Ware Dish, 14 inches diameter, decorated with/a vase holding a plant in blossom in two colors on a/yellow ground, and initials I.S.
- Location: On back
- Method of creation: Printed in black and hand-written in black
- Type: Label
Inscription present: rectangular white paper stick-on label with cut corners and a black ink line edging
- Text: 4946/Bowl shaped/moulded slip-/ware dish with/a vase of flowers/upon it, it has/dark slips upon/a yellow ground/b. from Mr Shel/don. Feb. 8 1928/waWas in the Edkins/& Boynton/collections
- Location: On back near centre
- Method of creation: Hand-written in black ink
- Type: Label
References and bibliographic entries
Identification numbers
Accession number: C.200-1928
Primary reference Number: 72987
Old object number: 4946
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Saturday 6 August 2011
Updated: Tuesday 9 July 2024
Last processed: Tuesday 29 July 2025
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
