IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 74735 accession number: C.38-1934 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Thursday 25 August 2022 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Reddish-buff earthenware with very pale turquoise glaze, painted in blue. Circular with a wide rim, shallow curved sides and flat centre, standing on a footring. Decorated in the middle with the 'Death of Absalom' and over the rest of the flat area with scattered motifs of a tall building, houses, figures of men and animals, floral sprigs and trees. The rim is decorated with similar motifs, the animals and figures orientated with their feet near the outer edge. The back is inscribed within the footing 'E:W/Widdor January/te 20 Day A yard/1703'. The back of the well is decorated with groups of four small circles alternating with larger circles, and the rim with striped ovals alternating with crossed batons with leaves in the spaces. object type: tin-glazed earthenware painted in blue; the Death of Absalom, with other figures, detached sprigs, animals, and buildings; inscribed on the back 'EW/widdor January/ye 20 Day A yard/1703 title: dish NOTES ----- type: history note value: Cecil Baring, 3rd Lord Revelstoke; sold Puttick & Simpson, 20-23 November 1934, Catalogue of an Important Collection of Old English Pottery, the property of the Rt Hon. Lord Revelstoke, third day, 22 November, p. 46, lot 554. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Purchased with the Glaisher Fund STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/74735 PEOPLE ------------------- Absalom SUBJECTS ------------------- horse Death of Absalom horse Death of Absalom TECHNIQUES ---------- reddish-buff earthenware with pale turquoise glaze, painted in cobalt-blue tin-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: English delftware DATING ------ creation date: 1703 - 1703 creation date earliest: 1703 creation date latest: 1703 culture: 18th Century, Early# culture: Queen Anne CREATORS -------- maker: Brislington Pottery DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 56.5 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Variations on Ceramic Themes, Big is Beautiful? CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of an Important Collection of Old English Pottery, the property of the Rt. Hon. Lord Revelstoke Dated English Delftware Delftware Chinoiserie at Brislington in the late Seventeenth and early Eighteenth Centuries Delftware in the Fitzwilliam Museum --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_38_1934.jpg height: 744 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/mid_C_38_1934.jpg height: 489 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_38_1934.jpg height: 744 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/preview_C_38_1934.jpg height: 245 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_38_1934_20_28BACK_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/mid_C_38_1934_20_28BACK_29.jpg height: 500 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_38_1934_20_28BACK_29.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/preview_C_38_1934_20_28BACK_29.jpg height: 250 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_38_1934_20_28DETAIL_29.jpg height: 551 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/mid_C_38_1934_20_28DETAIL_29.jpg height: 363 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/C_38_1934_20_28DETAIL_29.jpg height: 551 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa27/preview_C_38_1934_20_28DETAIL_29.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels