IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 75846 accession number: C.697-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Wednesday 15 July 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Lead-glazed creamware decorated with coloured glazes and underglaze oxides in green, yellow, slate-blue and dark grey. The press-moulded plaque bears a relief half-length portrait of Elizabeth Canning against a plain dark grey background. Canning wears a small bonnet and clutches at her shawl, which she wears over her dress. An asymmetrical frame of C-scrolls, S-scrolls, foliate patterns and, at the top, a small shell surrounds the plaque and there is a hole for hanging at the top. object type: Press-moulded lead-glazed creamware decorated with coloured glazes. title: wall plaque NOTES ----- type: history note value: provenance unidentified before sale of 29 March 1917 at Puttick and Simpson's, London, where it was Lot 106 and was bought by Mr Stoner for 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/75846 PEOPLE ------------------- Elizabeth Canning TECHNIQUES ---------- press-moulded earthenware decorated with painted on coloured glazes and underglaze coloured metallic oxides; it is difficult to distinguish between colours added as powdered oxides beneath a clear lead-glaze and coloured lead-glazes press-moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware category: creamware DATING ------ creation date: 1760 - 1770 creation date earliest: 1760 creation date latest: 1770 culture: 18th Century, third quarter# culture: George III CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified Staffordshire Pottery maker: Indeo Pottery DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 14.3 dimension: Width units: cm value: 12.4 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge The Henry H. Weldon Collection, English Pottery, Stoneware and Earthenware 1650-1800 Origins of Designs for English Ceramics of the Eighteenth Century A Potwork in Devonshire: The History and Products of the Bovey Tracey Potteries 1750-1836 Nicholas Crisp and the Elizabeth Canning Scandal with new findings on Dr Anthony Supply and John Offley --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_697_1928_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/mid_C_697_1928_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_697_1928_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/preview_C_697_1928_281_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_697_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/mid_C_697_1928_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_697_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/preview_C_697_1928_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels