IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 73571 accession number: C.2478-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 4 August 2025 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue. The four-sided plaque has a moulded a border of baroque scrollwork in relief, with the inside of a large shell at top centre, the back of a smaller shell at bottom centre, and the back of an even smaller shell at the middle of each side. It is painted with an outdoor scene, described in an inscription below: 'Stiers wreetheijt gepleegt aan meester en vrouw een wonderlijk bestier tot verlossing hunner kint geschiet tot zerdam 1647' (Bull's savage assault uipon its master and his wife; a strange contrivance for the delivery of their child; took place at Zerdam 1647). In the foreground, a man is being overthrown by a bull, and a woman is tossed in the air, her child falling to the ground; to the left, a boy is flying a kite, and a crowd of men attack another bull on the bank of a mere. title: wall panel NOTES ----- type: history note value: Rt. Hon. Montague Frick Lord Swaythling; Christie's 8 May 1924, The Swaythling Heirlooms, sold by order of the Trustees of the Rt. Hon. Montague Frick Lord Swaythling deceased being part of the Swaythling heirloomslot 57; sold for 23 guineas (£24 3s) to Frank Partridge, bidding on behalf of 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/73571 CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: Dutch Delftware DATING ------ creation date: 1730 - 1740 creation date earliest: 1730 creation date latest: 1740 culture: 1730s CREATORS -------- maker: Schiedamsedijk factory EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: The Lost Century, Japanese Arita Porcelain 1720 - 1820 in Britain: Selective Catalogue CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge 'Delfts' uit de provincie, Aardewerk uit Hollandse tegelfabrieken Tegels uit Rotterdam 1609-1866 The Embarrassment of Riches :an interpretation of Dutch culture in the golden age --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa40/large_c_2478_1928_1_201403_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 918 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa40/mid_c_2478_1928_1_201403_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 448 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa40/c_2478_1928_1_201403_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 919 pixels width: 1025 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa40/preview_c_2478_1928_1_201403_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 224 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa40/large_c_2478_1928_2_201403_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 904 pixels width: 1024 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa40/mid_c_2478_1928_2_201403_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 441 pixels width: 499 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa40/c_2478_1928_2_201403_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 905 pixels width: 1025 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa40/preview_c_2478_1928_2_201403_amt49_dc2.jpg height: 221 pixels width: 250 pixels