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Production: Unidentified Staffordshire Potter
Earthenware dish slip-trailed underglaze with a king, and a queen holding a fan and a stylized flower, surrounded by a trellis border broken at the bottom by 'GOD:SAVE:VS:ALL'
Pale brownish-red earthenware, thrown, coated on the front with white slip, and slip-trailed in ochre-brown and dark brown, and jewelled in white under yellowish lead-glaze. The reverse is undecorated. The dish is circular with a broad, slightly concave, sloping rim with a bevelled edge, curved sides and a flat centre. In the middle, on the left, is a legless figure of a king , and to the viewer's right, a larger figure of a queen holding up a fixed fan in her right hand and a flower on a stalk in her left. Below her left arm is a stylized bird, perhaps a peacock. The figures and bird are outlined in jewelling in white slip, which like the ground appears honey-coloured under the lead-glaze. The rim is decorated with trellis pattern in two shades of brown, broken at the bottom by the inscription 'GOD:SAVE:VS:ALL' (each colon representing four vertical dots), with a brown line jewelled in white above and below it.
History note: An unidentified owner in Salisbury; George Stoner, London, from whom purchased for £70 on 15 November1911 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Diameter: 43 cm
Height: 7.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
17th Century, Late
Circe
1670
-
1699
The figures may represent William III and Mary II who were crowned on 11 April 1689. If so, the inscription might indicate heart-felt relief that the continuance of the protestant faith as the state religion had been secured by their accession. Religious statements occur much less frequently on Staffordshire slipware dishes than the potter's or sometimes the owner's names or initials.
Decoration
composed of
slip
( ochre-brown, dark brown, and white)
Front Surface
composed of
lead-glaze
( yellowish)
pale brownish-red Earthenware
Throwing (pottery technique) : Pale brownish-red earthenware, thrown, coated on the front with white slip, and slip-trailed in ochre-brown and dark brown, and jewelled in white under yellowish lead-glaze. The reverse is undecorated
Inscription present: four vertical dots between each word
Accession number: C.220-1928
Primary reference Number: 73228
Old object number: 3560
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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