Current Location: In storage
Maker(s)
Potter:
Unidentified Staffordshire Potter
Entities
Categories
Description
Slipware dish slip-trailed with figures of a man and woman, each holding a flower, surrounded by a trellis border broken at the top by their names, THoMAS; :SARAϽT(both Ss back to front).
Pale red earthenware, thrown, the front coated in white slip, and slip-trailed in brown, dark-brown and white, and lead-glazed. The reverse is undecorated, but appears to have been given a thin wash of dark brown slip around the sides and rim. The dish is circular with a broad sloping and warped rim, deep curved sides and flat centre. In the middle are a standing man and woman, each holding a flower, with a stylized leaf on each side of them, and two leaves and a bud below the man. The rim is decorated with trellis pattern in two shades of brown, broken at the top by a panel slip trailed with their names, THoMAS; :SARAϽT(both Ss back to front). The outlines of the figures, leaves, flowers, and lettering are jewelled with dots of white slip.
Notes
History note: Christie's, ; Mr George Stoner of Stoner & Evans, London, from whom purchased for £6 on 3 June 1907 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge.
Legal notes
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Measurements and weight
Height: 6.5 cm
Width: 45.7 cm
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed
(1928-12-07)
by
Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
Dating
17th Century, Late
Circa
1670
CE
-
1690
CE
School or Style
Baroque
Components of the work
Front
composed of
slip
( cream, brown and dark brown)
lead-glaze
( yellowish)
Decoration
Materials used in production
pale red
Earthenware
Techniques used in production
Throwing
: Pale red earthenware, thrown, the front coated in white slip, and slip-trailed in brown, dark-brown and white, andcovered with yellowish lead-glaze. The reverse is undecorated, but appears to have been given a thin wash of dark brown slip around the sides and rim.
Inscription or legends present
Inscription present: the Ss are back to front
- Text: THoMAS:SARAϽT
- Location: On rim over the figures
- Method of creation: Slip-trailed in dark brown and white
- Type: Inscription
References and bibliographic entries
Related exhibitions
Identification numbers
Accession number: C.218-1928
Primary reference Number: 73175
Old object number: 2663A
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Saturday 6 August 2011
Updated: Tuesday 10 September 2024
Last processed: Tuesday 15 July 2025
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
