1592984324000 1312637261000 Standard Record object-76465 1752602734964 1714400628000 1752602690710 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-76465 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/76465 0c4fcc1e-49c1-3b1b-ac0e-be26d359489b 11 reference agent-194193 adlib-agent-194193 b8fbe76e-407a-3e93-bedd-74914996453e Polito, Stephani reference term-108657 adlib-term-108657 c170cd8e-fc63-3446-81a4-6682b5979808 lead-glazed earthenware reference term-113184 adlib-term-113184 25fc548d-d02f-39a6-a34f-d609393a0043 J. W. L. Glaisher blue, green, yellow, pink, flesh-pink, red, brown, grey, and black reference term-32638 adlib-term-32638 97b8d1a5-7b8f-3a2a-a275-7d001aeaae2b enamel reference term-107733 adlib-term-107733 00160189-e3ce-3796-a88b-5aa8d6c808c4 lead-glaze Decoration in blue, green, yellow, pink, flesh-pink, red, brown, grey, and black enamels reference term-106226 adlib-term-106226 194567f2-2bcd-3446-ae31-652386611815 painting Parts earthenware, moulded and modelled, lead glazed and painted overglaze in blue, green, yellow, pink, flesh-pink, red, brown, grey, and black enamels reference term-111179 adlib-term-111179 be5c887b-c0ed-3d89-82b2-c3a870e72a68 moulding reference term-121246 adlib-term-121246 cd0cb1a4-68fa-396e-a2f5-856490890cd3 modelling reference term-24306 adlib-term-24306 baea8705-187b-3229-a6f9-73c5ef1a1de4 entertaining Applied Arts Earthenware figure group, moulded and modelled, lead glazed and painted with polychrome enamels. Stafforshire table-base group representing Polito’s Menagerie. The table base has six feet and is painted brown, with relief polychrome garlands all around. A yellow and brown booth stands on it; there are three lamps and gathered curtains along the front of the roof and a brown flight of steps centre front. In the middle, a woman is coming out of a door, there are two children in front of her. To the right are the showman, a boy playing a drum and two trumpeters in long coats ; to the left are a woman in a feathered hat and a man who winds a barrel-organ on which a monkey is seated. Above the booth is a tall façade with an elephant with a castle on its back, two monkeys in trees, a lion and a tiger, all moulded in relief. The façade carries modelled birds and monkeys along the top of a ribbon with the impressed inscription: ‘POLITOS / MENAGERIE OF THE MOST WONDERFUL BURDS AND BEASTS FROM MOST PART OF THE WORLD, LION etc.’. The ‘S’ of ‘POLITOS’ is reversed. The back is flat, curving up the back of the façade and painted brown. The underside is glazed but unpainted, with three circular vent holes. C.965-1928 1 accession number C.965-1928 76465 priref 76465 Glaisher MS Catalogue, vol. 24 old object number 4211 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/76465 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/76465 no visible mark underside of base rectangular paper label handwritten in black ink No. 4211. Staffordshire group of Polito’s Menagerie. It is practically perfect. b. in London June 15 1923 label The ‘S’ of ‘POLITOS’ is reversed on front impressed POLITOS/ MENAGERIE OF THE WONDERFULL BURDS AND BEASTS FROM MOST (PART OF) THE WORLD LIONS & C inscription reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest reference agent-152564 adlib-agent-152564 c20df94d-f096-3e0b-a9b5-6ddd12161fb7 Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr 1928 1928 1928-12-07 bequeathed 1825 1825 CE 1825 circa 1825 1830 1 1830 CE 1830 circa 1830 maker reference agent-188632 adlib-agent-188632 b379bf0c-f1b7-35d3-89f0-cbc229ee14ff Unidentified Pottery Earthenware figure groups were popular from around 1810, although the earliest examples date from nearly a century earlier. A cheaper alternative to porcelain figures, they were often produced by small potteries; very few are marked. Classical or literary subjects were frequently copied from porcelain examples, but potters increasingly turned to scenes from everyday life and topical events. Early groups are often complex, with modelled and moulded parts, applied decoration and partially decorated backs. As demand increased, processes were streamlined for mass production and by c.1835 three-part press-moulding had largely replaced earlier methods. Table-base groups, on four or six short legs, were made from c.1825-35; probably by just a few makers. They have in the past been attributed to Obadaiah Sherratt of Burslem, but without clear evidence. The large number of modelled figures here suggests a late 1820s date. Pottery models of Wombwell’s and Polito’s Menageries were equally popular, and there are a number of surviving examples. Versions on different table or other bases suggest they were made by several potters and sometimes the figures seem to have been made by different potters and/or moulds shared between potteries, perhaps to save costs. Figures of individual menagerie animals were also common. Travelling menageries were popular in England from the late 18th Century. Exotic animals, such as lions and elephants had previously only been seen in aristocratic collections; now menageries took them out to the general public. From c.1830s, with the addition of animal tamers’ tricks, brass bands and human performers, the shows evolved into what we now know as circus. Stephani Polito bought the Exeter Change Menagerie, already established in London c.1810. He died in 1814, but Polito’s Menagerie continued until c.1836. 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figure group reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum Publ. Vol. l, p. 126, no. 965 126 reference publication-1031 adlib-publication-1031 a5cc6cb3-2b6f-390a-af51-7e9d123e55ed Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Cf. Polito’s and Wombwell’s Menageries and other relevant images in a chapter on Staffordshire Figure Menageries which includes quote from Lord Byron’s diary. Also re circus and performing animal figures. 100-115 reference publication-5796 adlib-publication-5796 f53034c1-658f-3808-ae92-bf4b4c428367 People, Passions, Pastimes, and Pleasures, Staffordshire Figures 1810-1835 Cf. Plates 67-70 and b/w images, various versions of Polito’s and Wombwell’s Menageries, on different bases, c.1825-35. 261-275 reference publication-6492 adlib-publication-6492 8f7a7c8d-d834-39c7-aba5-eddaaff4dd0c English Earthenware Figures 1740-1840 Cf. Plate 73, Polito’s Menagerie, on a marbled table-base. Notes that Mr & Mrs Polito died 1814 and Mr Wombwell 1850. 92 reference publication-7215 adlib-publication-7215 5a432fe5-59b0-3aa3-80ff-60e8c20dd302 Staffordshire Chimney Ornaments reference publication-992 adlib-publication-992 e26b9de8-5607-3d6e-82c1-bba7d8cb57c4 Plagiarism Personified? European Pottery and Porcelain Figures Ref. for menageries, including Polito's and Wombwell's 103-17 reference publication-200003135 adlib-publication-200003135 74428ebf-9d0f-3cf6-be56-8d84ed5d97c2 Elephants, Education and Entertainment. Touring menageries in nineteenth century Britain reference term-58768 adlib-term-58768 5fb4fd35-4bf9-3223-b21a-5f49e06eaac7 menagerie reference term-106940 adlib-term-106940 9741b873-2411-335d-abf2-2a4af30d9c5d circus reference term-107031 adlib-term-107031 3ea57a00-0cd5-37b7-9c8d-444febb5ca75 elephant reference term-92145 adlib-term-92145 e3b08aac-6ac6-32d1-bb95-0f77f3dbc2ab monkey reference term-21484 adlib-term-21484 539814e0-9ba9-3a5c-bdcf-c783cd92909c musicians animal reference term-106419 adlib-term-106419 6a020a7a-d710-3cb6-af17-8cd664abcf90 bird animal reference term-106353 adlib-term-106353 94dbf2d1-80ce-352d-b3db-fd957b2fd428 lion activity reference term-23596 adlib-term-23596 f5fe6ab7-fea6-31d5-8f77-1ad5f40613cc music literal elephant elephant literal monkey monkey literal bird bird literal lion lion literal music music

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