1592984324000 1312637261000 Standard Record object-76461 1752602738499 1714400627000 1752602690710 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-76461 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/76461 9f12cd1a-b155-3d99-9dd9-4ee516b99da3 6 reference agent-193961 adlib-agent-193961 5b2cced4-a92f-301e-a340-12b325d99c30 Martin, Maria reference agent-193962 adlib-agent-193962 1b7116c5-72a6-3ea4-8d81-ac6e9758361c Corder, William 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 green, yellow, red, brown, grey, black reference term-32638 adlib-term-32638 97b8d1a5-7b8f-3a2a-a275-7d001aeaae2b enamel Decoration Decoraton in green, yellow, red, brown, grey, and black enamels reference term-120086 adlib-term-120086 cdecca31-5ec3-3fe3-9e5d-455d9771fda5 painting overglaze Parts reference term-111179 adlib-term-111179 be5c887b-c0ed-3d89-82b2-c3a870e72a68 moulding reference term-121246 adlib-term-121246 cd0cb1a4-68fa-396e-a2f5-856490890cd3 modelling Applied Arts Earthenware table figure group, moulded and modelled, lead glazed and painted with polychrome enamels. Staffordshire group of a thatched red barn flanked by two flowering trees, with a man opening the door and, in front, a woman in a floral dress tending two chickens at left, and a cow at right. The base of the scene, coloured green, has a 3-bow front, the centre section lettered ‘THE RED BARN’. It sits on a four-legged table base, painted brown, with a green top, and decorated with polychrome swags and a small brown moulded dog centre front. The back is almost flat, and painted. The underside of the base is recessed and flat, with two 1.7 cm diameter vent holes. C.962-1928 1 accession number C.962-1928 76461 priref 76461 1910 1910 1910 Glaisher MS Catalogue, vol.11 old object number 3203 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/76461 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/76461 on the front of the table base painted THE RED/BARN inscription a dog (greyhound); also a dot in same position on back centre front of base moulded mark 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 bequeathed Captain Reynolds was the son of Mr C.W. Reynolds who acquired the Dwight figures which were sold in 1871 1828 CE 1828 circa 1828 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. These early figure groups are often complex, including modelled and moulded parts and applied decoration; the backs, though flat, are decorated; bocage (stylised foliage) is common on groups from c.1810-20. However, as demand increased, processes were streamlined to allow mass production and by c.1835 the earlier, relatively costly, methods had largely given way to three-part press-moulding. Table groups, standing on four or six short legs, were made from c.1825-35; similar features suggest they were made by just a few makers. They have in the past been attributed to Obadaiah Sherratt of Burslem, but without clear evidence; they were probably made by a number of figure makers. However, similarities in the shape and colouring of this table base, the moulded dog ‘mark’ on the front and the bocage suggest this table base group was made by the same potter as two others in the Fitzwilliam Collection. The group commemorates the murder of Maria Martin by William Corder in the Red Barn, Polstead, Suffolk in 1827. Reported in ‘The Times’ the crime became a national sensation. Some 10,000 people are reported to have attended Corder’s execution at Bury St Edmunds in 1828. reference term-120816 adlib-term-120816 b8c35cb6-f02f-34c9-9dda-b3120e12c749 19th Century, second quarter reference term-107658 adlib-term-107658 824d3ecf-92c1-33aa-8d45-2f0239317270 literal England England country literal Staffordshire Staffordshire region Staffordshire reference term-107733 adlib-term-107733 00160189-e3ce-3796-a88b-5aa8d6c808c4 lead-glaze reference term-42861 adlib-term-42861 5b368285-f1a8-3dcf-a5b2-637fd3c3956c earthenware Height cm 21.2 Width cm 26.6 reference media-47793 adlib-media-47793 cfd8d398-b237-33e1-90e7-4f7e249f7a20 jpeg aa/aa8/C_962_1928_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 550 width pixels 760 1616278803485 1 image jpeg aa/aa8/mid_C_962_1928_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 362 width pixels 500 1616278803485 1 image jpeg aa/aa8/C_962_1928_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 550 width pixels 760 1616278803485 1 image jpeg aa/aa8/preview_C_962_1928_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 181 width pixels 250 1616278803485 1 image 0 media image reference media-47794 adlib-media-47794 ae77a158-d8e7-3fff-aaeb-62363271a330 jpeg aa/aa8/C_962_1928_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 550 width pixels 760 1616272367956 1 image jpeg aa/aa8/mid_C_962_1928_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 362 width pixels 500 1616272367956 1 image jpeg aa/aa8/C_962_1928_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 550 width pixels 760 1616272367956 1 image jpeg aa/aa8/preview_C_962_1928_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 181 width pixels 250 1616272367956 1 image 1 media image reference media-47795 adlib-media-47795 6df10f87-6677-31db-8251-a30f9afbf036 jpeg aa/aa8/C_962_1928_283_29.jpg 1 height pixels 740 width pixels 570 1616259597442 1 image jpeg aa/aa8/mid_C_962_1928_283_29.jpg 1 height pixels 649 width pixels 500 1616259597442 1 image jpeg aa/aa8/C_962_1928_283_29.jpg 1 height pixels 740 width pixels 570 1616259597442 1 image jpeg aa/aa8/preview_C_962_1928_283_29.jpg 1 height pixels 325 width pixels 250 1616259597442 1 image 2 media image reference media-47796 adlib-media-47796 2ee7d35f-0f6f-3aaa-a52e-11f565377527 jpeg aa/aa8/C_962_1928_284_29.jpg 1 height pixels 740 width pixels 570 1616247221996 1 image jpeg aa/aa8/mid_C_962_1928_284_29.jpg 1 height pixels 649 width pixels 500 1616247221996 1 image jpeg aa/aa8/C_962_1928_284_29.jpg 1 height pixels 740 width pixels 570 1616247221996 1 image jpeg aa/aa8/preview_C_962_1928_284_29.jpg 1 height pixels 325 width pixels 250 1616247221996 1 image 3 media image reference term-110220 adlib-term-110220 e22d3544-a393-3f19-9be4-dc2632ca9942 figure group reference term-134396 adlib-term-134396 238a8c79-c8ce-3ed9-9d80-3a938ba82083 Staffordshire figure group (early) reference term-130680 adlib-term-130680 4af9103f-c84b-3698-8764-bdecfcb876ec flat-backed figure group reference term-134395 adlib-term-134395 6496499c-d144-363b-8111-4f8084f131f8 table base group history note Captain Reynolds Collection, London; sold to Messrs Gill and Reigate; Mr Stoner, London, from whom purchased in 1910 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, Trinity College, Cambridge. Dr Glaisher paid £125 for this and fourteen other pieces, as part of a purchase of 35 figures and figure groups. 1 same maker reference object-76462 adlib-object-76462 b7804466-93b9-36f3-94b8-aa2c77bee99b

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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. 962 126 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. various examples illustrated, and notes of similarities between table base groups. 261-75 reference publication-6492 adlib-publication-6492 8f7a7c8d-d834-39c7-aba5-eddaaff4dd0c English Earthenware Figures 1740-1840 Cf. chapter on ‘The Red Barn Murder’ with very similar table base group (p.48) and other Staffordshire figure interpretations. Also other examples of table base figure groups. 37,46-53, 137 reference publication-5796 adlib-publication-5796 f53034c1-658f-3808-ae92-bf4b4c428367 People, Passions, Pastimes, and Pleasures, Staffordshire Figures 1810-1835 Ref. early source re table base figures, mentions the Red Barn and Polito’s Menagerie as assisting the dating of such groups. 92-4 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 Cf.figure group ‘Perswaition’,c.1815-25. 100-101 reference publication-1030 adlib-publication-1030 9cf77d50-a614-3947-8d0e-919f695fe7b0 Fitzwilliam Museum Handbooks, English Pottery

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