IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 73019 accession number: C.202-1928 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 produce a design in relief on the inside, coated with cream slip, and slip-trailed in dark ochre and dark brown slips under yellowish lead-glaze; the exterior is undecorated. The dish is circular with deep curved sides and a crinkled edge, produced by adjacent impressions made with an oval ended implement or stick. The inside is decorated with a stylized tree bearing three large sunflower heads with petals alternately ochre and dark brown, and two tulip stems, one on each side of the tree. Above are two birds perching on the tulip stems, and in the middle between them is a rectangular frame enclosing the initials 'S M', separated by a dark brown slip square. Round the sloping outer edge there is a border of dark brown triangles with comma-like ochre strokes in the spaces between them. object type: press-moulded slipware dish decorated with the initials S M on a panel in the middle of a tree bearing three large sunflowers, and having a bird on either side title: dish NOTES ----- type: history note value: Sotheby's, 17 ? November, 1913, lot 317; sold for £52 to Howgate. Frank Partridge, London, from whom purchased for £75 on 14 August 1916 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/73019 SUBJECTS ------------------- bird tree sunflower tulip bird tree sunflower tulip TECHNIQUES ---------- buff earthenware press-moulded over a hump mould to produce a design in relief on the inside, coated with cream slip, and slip-trailed in dark ochre and dark brown slips under yellowish lead-glaze; the exterior is undecorated. The dish is circular with deep curved sides and a crinkled edge, produced by adjacent impressions made with an oval ended implement or stick moulding CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware category: slipware DATING ------ creation date: 1720 - 1740 creation date earliest: 1720 creation date latest: 1740 culture: 1720s culture: 1730s culture: George I culture: George II CREATORS -------- maker: Malkin, Samuel DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 8.8 dimension: Width units: cm value: 43 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Early Staffordshire Pottery Samuel Malkin and the 'SM' Slipware Dishes I 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 The Longridge Collection of English Slipware and Delftware, Volume 1, Slipware English Slip-decorated Earthenware at Williamsburg Important English Pottery from a European Private Collection A newly discovered Leeds slipware pottery --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/C_202_1928_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/mid_C_202_1928_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/C_202_1928_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/preview_C_202_1928_281_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/C_202_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/mid_C_202_1928_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/C_202_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/preview_C_202_1928_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/C_202_1928.jpg height: 748 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/mid_C_202_1928.jpg height: 492 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/C_202_1928.jpg height: 748 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/preview_C_202_1928.jpg height: 246 pixels width: 250 pixels