Current Location: In storage
Maker(s)
Production:
Unknown
(Probably)
Entities
Categories
Description
Earthenware plate, tin-glazed and painted in blue, green, yellow, red and dark manganese-brown with a floral spray within a border, and panels of trellis pattern
Pale buff earthenware, moulded, tin-glazed and painted in blue, green, yellow, red and dark manganese-brown. The plate is circular with a sloping rim, deep curved sides and flat centre. In the middle there is a spray of leaves with three blue and yellow flowers, and three groups of three red buds, surrounded by a border of red ellipses separated by pairs of blue spots on reserved in a yellow ground, and edged by dark manganese-brown bands. On the rim there are four panels of red trellis pattern separated by smaller panels with green, yellow and red stylized plant motifs (perhaps a yellow bud flanked by leaves) between dark manganese-brown bands. The reverse has three peg marks, and is undecorated.
Notes
History note: Bought at Bruges about 1896 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Legal notes
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Measurements and weight
Diameter: 22.6 cm
Height: 3.5 cm
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed
(1928-12-07)
by
Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
Dating
19th Century, first half
Circa
1800
-
1850
Note
When Dr Glaisher bought this plate in Bruges, he considered that it was made at Thourout in Belgium. It was reattributed as probably made by the Delamettairie factory in Rouen, by Bernard Rackham in his Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection (1935). It is similar in style to another plate, C.2300-1928, the purchase place of which was not recorded.
Components of the work
Decoration
composed of
high temperature colours
( blue, green, yellow, red, and dark manganese-brown)
Surface
composed of
tin-glaze
Materials used in production
buff
Earthenware
Techniques used in production
Moulding
References and bibliographic entries
Identification numbers
Accession number: C.2299-1928
Primary reference Number: 76707
Old object number: 687
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Saturday 6 August 2011
Updated: Tuesday 8 April 2025
Last processed: Tuesday 15 July 2025
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
