IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 76706 accession number: C.2298-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 8 April 2025 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Earthenware, moulded; the back tin-glazed dark manganese-brown (cul noir), and the front tin glazed white, and painted in blue, green orange-red, and dark manganese-brown; some of the white glaze has run over the dark brown under the rim. Circular with a wavy edge, sloping rim, and shallow well with curved sides. The front is decorated with a spray of leaves and a large blue flower with an orange-red centre and two more orange-red flowers. The rim is mottled with manganese between two concentric circles of darker manganese-purple. object type: earthenware plate with wavy edge, the reverse tin-glazed dark manganese-brown, and the front tin-glazed white and painted in blue, green and orange-red with a spray of flowers, and on the rim with a border of mottled manganese-purple title: plate NOTES ----- type: history note value: Bought at Caen, 1 April 1894 by 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/76706 SUBJECTS ------------------- flower flower TECHNIQUES ---------- earthenware, moulded, tin-glazed white on the front and painted in blue green orange-red and manganese-brown; tin-glazed dark manganese-brown on the reverse (cul noir) moulding CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: French faïence DATING ------ creation date: 1800 - 1850 creation date earliest: 1800 creation date latest: 1850 culture: 19th Century, first half CREATORS -------- maker: Delamettairie factory maker: Forges les Eaux factory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 20.8 dimension: Height units: cm value: 2.7 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa1/C_2298_1928.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa1/mid_C_2298_1928.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa1/C_2298_1928.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa1/preview_C_2298_1928.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels