1592996626000 1312637261000 Standard Record object-74928 1752602728957 1714467790000 1752602690710 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-74928 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/74928 b20ad0ff-3791-3121-b8f0-c099471aea85 18 reference agent-150717 adlib-agent-150717 282d232a-1fb9-3f51-8378-bca15247004d St George reference term-108657 adlib-term-108657 c170cd8e-fc63-3446-81a4-6682b5979808 lead-glazed earthenware reference term-140823 adlib-term-140823 d8ebcbe4-8f97-333b-a11d-95895ceb405f coloured glazed figures Decoration in green, yellow, greyish-brown, and brown lead-glazes reference term-106226 adlib-term-106226 194567f2-2bcd-3446-ae31-652386611815 painting Applied Arts earthenware decorated with coloured lead glazes Cream earthenware, press-moulded, and decorated with yellow, green, greyish-brown and brown lead-glazes. The underside of the base is open and unglazed, and has six ventilation holes in its sides and one in the centre. The figures are supported on a roughly oval rocky mound base with a tree stump in the middle. St George rides Roman fashion without stirrups on a spirited horse moving to the viewer's right with its tail streaming out behind. He wears a semblance of Roman military costume with a plumed helmet, and a long sash across his breastplate. He looks downwards and turns towards the viewer with both hands raised to grasp a spear (now missing) with which he is attacking the green and yellow dragon which writhes on the ground below him with its head raised and jaws open. reference exhibition-3289 adlib-exhibition-3289 e3d18b43-4d2f-3529-85f8-2d3c69c7b281 Twelve Coins Twelve Stories C.40-1930 1 accession number C.40-1930 74928 priref 74928 1930 1930 1930 The Fitzwilliam Museum Glaisher Addition number Gl. Add. 4-1930 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/74928 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/74928 reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum Purchased with the Glaisher Fund reference agent-150858 adlib-agent-150858 d36d1847-4d6a-33eb-974b-f4b061db49f9 Sotheby's 1930 1930 1930-11-14 bought 1782 1782 CE 1782 circa 1782 1795 1 1795 CE 1795 circa 1795 probably potter reference agent-167262 adlib-agent-167262 b4ed69e6-df29-3832-a345-808895b7e3cd Wood, Ralph, II perhaps potter reference agent-167264 adlib-agent-167264 6a2b8eeb-a521-3b17-97f1-8406e17a53a5 Wood, Ralph, III Coloured glazed figures were probably introduced about 1780. The lead glazes, coloured with metallic oxides to produced green, yellow, brown, blue and grey, were painted onto the once-fired model, which was then fired again. The clear glaze over the flesh areas often had a slight green or blue tinge, and the latter may be very pronounced. There were numerous models, mainly of rural, classical and biblical subjects or animals. The model for this splendid group of St George and the Dragon may have been inspired by a bronze by Francesco Fanelli (c. 1580-c. 1661), who worked in England during the reign of Charles I. It was in production by 16 November 1783 when an invoice in the Wedgwood archives records the sale by Ralph Wood to Josiah and Thomas Wedgwood of several figures including a dozen 'George & Dragons' at 2s. each. (Wedgwood MSS, 11496-12). Ralph Wood had returned to Burslem in the March 1782 after his business as a pottery dealer in Bristol ended in bankruptcy. After clearing his debts, he seems to have set up as a potter in Burslem by the late summer, as he supplied a small number of figures to Josiah Wedgwood in August 1782, and probably continued to produce them until his death in 1795 when his son Ralph III took over his factory. An example of this group has been recorded with the mark 'Ra. 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figure and animal group reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum 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 Publ. p. 80-1, no. 35 80-1 reference publication-1030 adlib-publication-1030 9cf77d50-a614-3947-8d0e-919f695fe7b0 Fitzwilliam Museum Handbooks, English Pottery reference publication-200002923 adlib-publication-200002923 7ea701f3-c76d-34ec-98d3-9f4a3148e5be Baroque forms and decoration on English Pottery 1640-1760 Cf. pp. 166-171, 'Some bronze statuettes by Francesco Fanelli', fig. 193, a St George and the Dragon at the Holburne Menstrie Museum, Bath 166-71 reference publication-7624 adlib-publication-7624 8b879ec6-d1f4-3337-8159-84bba2f971d0 Essays on Italian Sculpture Ref. pp. 55-99 for coloured glazed figures. Halfpenny considered that some of the 'Ralph Wood' figures could have been made by his brother, John Wood of Brownhills, but see Wynne Hamilton Foyne's article. 55-99 reference publication-6492 adlib-publication-6492 8f7a7c8d-d834-39c7-aba5-eddaaff4dd0c English Earthenware Figures 1740-1840 reference publication-8907 adlib-publication-8907 bf115235-7e6f-31b6-b554-185e7c04c7a3 The Cyril Humphris Collection, Part I, European Sculpture and Works of Art reference publication-5762 adlib-publication-5762 3db9732a-ebd0-38c7-b454-dee1b0752cc6 English and Continental Ceramics Ref. pp. 120-8 The author supports the traditional view that 'Ralph Wood' figures were modelled and made by Ralph Wood after his return to Staffordshire between September 1781 and March 1782. 120-8 reference publication-200002959 adlib-publication-200002959 9bc4ecb6-6a61-3fa4-98b9-d87a4bf8eb11 'Ralph Wood' Figures: Who modelled and made them? animal reference term-107785 adlib-term-107785 c70edf96-a6e9-39b0-99bb-d97be0cef893 dragon literal dragon dragon

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