IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 73441 accession number: C.2399-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 29 April 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Buff earthenware, tin-glazed on the front and painted in dark blue, green, yellow, orange, and manganese-purple; the reverse, has unevenly applied lead-glaze appearing mottled pale brown. Part of a circular dish with a wide rim and shallow well, standing on a footring pierced by a suspension hole; three spur marks in the middle of the front; three turned bands close to edge on the reverse. the dish is decorated in the middle with a circular medallion formed by yellow, orange, dark blue and manganese-purple concentric circles, enclosing the Sacred Trigram 'yhs' in blue Gothic characters. The rim is divided into compartments by dark blue radial lines edged by a narrow and a wide dark blue band round the outer edge. These are filled alternately by a spray of green foliage with a dark blue flower and a geometrical motif comprising a blue St Andrew cross with curved of blue and manganese-purple lines between the arms. object type: tin-glazed earthenware painted in polychrome with the Sacred Trigram, ihs, in Gothic lettering surrounded by panels containing alternately a floral spray and a geometrical motif title: fragment of dish NOTES ----- type: history note value: Probably found in London; James Smith of Whitechapel, London, (d. 1901); 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/73441 PEOPLE ------------------- Smith, James SUBJECTS ------------------- Sacred Monogram, ihs flower Sacred Monogram, ihs flower TECHNIQUES ---------- throwing (pottery technique) CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware DATING ------ creation date: 1550 - 1600 creation date earliest: 1550 creation date latest: 1600 culture: 16th Century, second half CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 4 dimension: Width units: cm value: 24.5 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Early Netherlands Maiolica --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa5/C_2399_1928.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa5/mid_C_2399_1928.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa5/C_2399_1928.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa5/preview_C_2399_1928.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels