IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 73095 accession number: C.209-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 22 October 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Pale red earthenware, the front coated in cream slip, and slip trailed in dark ochre and brown, with outlines 'jewelled' with spots of cream, under yellowish lead-glaze. Circular with a narrow concave rim, deep curved sides and flat centre. The reverse is undecorated. The well is occupied by the Royal Arms (incorrectly rendered), with lion and unicorn supporters, and above, a crowned helmet, a lion, and mantling, with the initials C R below. The rim is decorated with a border of interlacing wavy lines. object type: earthenware dish decorated in cream, dark ochre and brown slips with the Royal Arms, the name THOMAS TAFT, and a border of interlacing wavy lines, and lead-glazed title: dish NOTES ----- type: history note value: A lady in the West of England; Cyril Andrade; Frank Partridge, London, from whom purchased at Cambridge for £803 on 25 May 1924 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/73095 SUBJECTS ------------------- coat-of-arms unicorn lion coat-of-arms unicorn lion TECHNIQUES ---------- pale red earthenware, the front coated in cream slip, and slip trailed in dark ochre and brown, with outlines 'jewelled' with spots of cream, under yellowish lead-glaze throwing (pottery technique) CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware category: slipware DATING ------ creation date: 1670 - 1685 creation date earliest: 1670 creation date latest: 1685 culture: 17th Century, Late culture: Charles II CREATORS -------- maker: Taft, Thomas DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 50.5 dimension: Height units: cm value: 8.5 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge English Slipware Dishes 1650-1850 Slipware in the Collection of the Potteries Museum and Art Gallery --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/C_209_1928_281_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/mid_C_209_1928_281_29.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/C_209_1928_281_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/preview_C_209_1928_281_29.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/C_209_1928_282_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/mid_C_209_1928_282_29.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/C_209_1928_282_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/preview_C_209_1928_282_29.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels