IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 73578 accession number: C.2482-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Sunday 29 September 2024 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 Oranje op aardewerk, Van Willem de Zwijger tot Koningin Beatrix --- 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