IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 73578 accession number: C.2482-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 3 October 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Buff earthenware, tin-glazed and painted in shades of purplish-blue; the glaze on the reverse is greyish-white. Circular with deep curved sides and everted rim, standing on a wide footring pierced by a suspension hole. The front is decorated with half-length portraits of William III and Mary II, both crowned, under a draped curtain with tassels on cords dangling between the monarchs. Below them is a horizontal band inscribed ':K.W.D.3.' a four petalled motif '.M.S.K.I.K.V.G.B.T.' The rim is encircled by a band. The reverse is decorated on the sides with alternating radiating strokes and circles, eight of each. object type: tin-glazed earthenware painted in shades of purplish-blue with half-length portraits of William III and Mary II both crowned, under a curtain with cords and tassels, and an inscription below; on the reverse, alternating circles and raidal strokes title: dish NOTES ----- type: history note value: Christie's, 3 December 1909, one of two items in lot 202; purchased for £6.6s. by Mr Stoner with 10% commission 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/73578 PEOPLE ------------------- William III Mary II SUBJECTS ------------------- curtain tassel curtain tassel TECHNIQUES ---------- tin-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: Delftware DATING ------ creation date: 1689 - 1694 creation date earliest: 1689 creation date latest: 1694 culture: 17th Century, Late culture: William III and Mary II CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified Delft factory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 29.6 dimension: Height units: cm value: 5.5 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: The Dutch Connection title: Royal Blue - The Golden Age of Dutch Delftware CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge The Dutch Connection: The Founding of the Fitzwilliam Museum Koninklijk Blauw. Het mooiste Delfts aardewerk van Willem en Mary. Delfts aardewerk Geschiedenis van een nationaal product Deel VI --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/C_2482_1928_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/mid_C_2482_1928_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/C_2482_1928_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/preview_C_2482_1928_281_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/C_2482_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/mid_C_2482_1928_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/C_2482_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa9/preview_C_2482_1928_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels