1592984324000 1312637261000 Standard Record object-76286 1752602733945 1714469840000 1752602690710 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-76286 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/76286 f09e9a62-8904-3e91-9349-8924b02c2e32 8 reference agent-163931 adlib-agent-163931 328a7c7c-3e92-3bb7-bf76-3998b8e48e10 Chaucer, Geoffrey reference term-108657 adlib-term-108657 c170cd8e-fc63-3446-81a4-6682b5979808 lead-glazed earthenware reference term-42858 adlib-term-42858 28dd1a37-f2da-31c5-a8b7-684957070a75 pearlware reference term-147317 adlib-term-147317 27f67278-c263-3df1-942a-60f5abba7d49 enamel painted figures reference term-113184 adlib-term-113184 25fc548d-d02f-39a6-a34f-d609393a0043 J. W. L. Glaisher blue, turquoise, yellowish-green, pale yellow, puce, flesh pink, red, dark brown, grey, and black reference term-32638 adlib-term-32638 97b8d1a5-7b8f-3a2a-a275-7d001aeaae2b enamel Decoration in blue, turquoise, yellowish-green, pale yellow, puce, flesh pink, red, dark brown, grey, and black enamels. reference term-120086 adlib-term-120086 cdecca31-5ec3-3fe3-9e5d-455d9771fda5 painting overglaze Depth 10.3 Width cm 12.8 Base reference term-20926 adlib-term-20926 a94dc9e2-1780-3bf2-bac2-0ec62e25b5c7 poet Applied Arts lead-glazed earthenware painted in polychrome enamels. Chaucer standing beside a pedestal with a books and a scroll on its top Cream earthenware, moulded, covered with slightly blue tinted lead-glaze, and painted in blue, turquoise, yellowish-green, pale buff, pink, puce, flesh pink, red, dark brown, grey, and black enamels. The model is supported on a deep-sided square base painted to resemble marble, and having a circular hole in its back wall. It is hollow underneath and has a large oval ventilation hole to left of centre. Chaucer stands on the viewer's right of a four-sided pedestal with incurved sides, standing on a circular base also painted to resemble marble. On its top is a scroll resting on two large books, one bound in turquoise and the other in puce. Chaucer stands on his left foot and has his right raised on the edge of the pedestal's base. He turns his head to his left, holds his coat to him with his left hand, rests his right forearm on top of the scroll, and in his right hand holds a smaller brown book upright on top of the pedestal. He is bearded, and wears a pale buff hood, a flowered waistcoat with puce edges and buttons, a long gown decorated with blue sprigs and dotted circles, and lined with pink, which has long sleeves with slashed tops and scalloped cuffs, pale buff breeches, white stockings and turquoise shoes with pink rosettes on top. C.883-1928 1 accession number C.883-1928 76286 priref 76286 Glaisher MS Catalogue, vol. 4 old object number 2680 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/76286 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/76286 There is a circular hole in the wall of the base between Burslem and 155 in middle of back of the back wall of the base impressed Ra. Wood/ Burslem/155 factory mark rectangular stick-on label now discoloured with one dark blue edge on underside of base beside ventilation hole label 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 the Glaisher ceramic collection was entered in the accession register as one item with the date of Dr Glaisher's death 1785 1785 1785 circa 1785 1800 1 1800 1800 1800 production reference agent-167262 adlib-agent-167262 b4ed69e6-df29-3832-a345-808895b7e3cd Wood, Ralph, II Probably made during the lifetime of Ralph Wood II, but possible between 1795 and 1801 when his factory was carried on by his son, Ralph Wood III . reference term-106779 adlib-term-106779 f0706fcd-d94c-3987-bcb5-f7f794332b6a 18th Century, Late reference term-107437 adlib-term-107437 96f4b0d1-fc11-39ff-ae91-1b23d888d479 George III reference term-108171 adlib-term-108171 c943fe08-bd72-32ab-823c-e1eeb56717b3 literal England England country Burslem cream reference term-42861 adlib-term-42861 5b368285-f1a8-3dcf-a5b2-637fd3c3956c earthenware slightly blue tinted reference term-107733 adlib-term-107733 00160189-e3ce-3796-a88b-5aa8d6c808c4 lead-glaze Height cm 31.5 Width cm 15.2 reference media-47340 adlib-media-47340 4a67b6e4-884f-3a12-b518-37a324e02faa jpeg aa/aa8/C_883_1928_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 740 width pixels 570 1742583616336 1 image jpeg aa/aa8/mid_C_883_1928_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 649 width pixels 500 1742583616336 1 image jpeg aa/aa8/C_883_1928_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 740 width pixels 570 1742583616336 1 image jpeg aa/aa8/preview_C_883_1928_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 325 width pixels 250 1742583616336 1 image 0 media image reference media-47341 adlib-media-47341 6bea046a-0679-3f8b-8268-06b88b55b6bc jpeg aa/aa8/C_883_1928_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 740 width pixels 570 1742583623896 1 image jpeg aa/aa8/mid_C_883_1928_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 649 width pixels 500 1742583623896 1 image jpeg aa/aa8/C_883_1928_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 740 width pixels 570 1742583623896 1 image jpeg aa/aa8/preview_C_883_1928_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 325 width pixels 250 1742583623896 1 image 1 media image reference term-107454 adlib-term-107454 6ca0f2ab-c1f8-329d-8a45-8f1322f53a20 figure history note Sotheby's, 9 July 1907, part of lot 47; bought Mr V.B. Button for £12.10s. on behalf of Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum Publ. Vol. l, p. 117, no. 883, vol. II, pl. 66B 117 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 Ref. pp. 130-40, Enamel painted figures: the first phase. Cf. p. 140, a comparable figure of Sir Isaac Newton with impressed mark 'Ra. Wood Burslem 137', dated by the author to c. 1785-1800. 130-40 reference publication-6492 adlib-publication-6492 8f7a7c8d-d834-39c7-aba5-eddaaff4dd0c English Earthenware Figures 1740-1840 reference term-10624 adlib-term-10624 c882b99a-0b49-320e-8d8a-fd72a34d8848 Baroque reference term-145 adlib-term-145 6bddd4fb-936e-3ca1-bfe3-1ed68f4a13ea poetry

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