IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 73228 accession number: C.220-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 24 September 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: 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. object type: 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' title: dish NOTES ----- type: history note value: 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 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/73228 PEOPLE ------------------- King queen SUBJECTS ------------------- monarchy fan flower bird fan flower bird TECHNIQUES ---------- 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 throwing (pottery technique) CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware category: slipware DATING ------ creation date: 1670 - 1699 creation date earliest: 1670 creation date latest: 1699 culture: 17th Century, Late CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified Staffordshire Potter DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 43 dimension: Height units: cm value: 7.5 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Philip Eglin and English Folk Ceramics CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge 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_220_1928.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/mid_C_220_1928.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/C_220_1928.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/preview_C_220_1928.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels