1592984324000 1312637261000 Standard Record object-76462 1752602737242 1714400628000 1752602690710 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-76462 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/76462 b7804466-93b9-36f3-94b8-aa2c77bee99b 5 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 reference term-107563 adlib-term-107563 38dcd825-1de1-3222-82c6-15a95729b5ff enamels reference term-107733 adlib-term-107733 00160189-e3ce-3796-a88b-5aa8d6c808c4 lead-glaze Decoration reference term-106226 adlib-term-106226 194567f2-2bcd-3446-ae31-652386611815 painting reference term-122641 adlib-term-122641 d5fb75d8-097d-3fd7-8e70-87e9d96d77f7 glazing Parts reference term-116699 adlib-term-116699 aeda8b32-c16d-3eda-bdec-8cc4ed32c43a modelled Applied Arts Earthenware table figure group, moulded and modelled, lead glazed and painted with polychrome enamels. Figure group of a christening. A clergyman holds a pink-gowned baby; a clerk stands by his side. Facing them, across a table, are two godmothers wearing flowered dresses, mauve cloaks and large yellow bonnets trimmed with flowers and feathers; one of them holds her hand to her bonnet, the other has crossed arms. At the back is the godfather with a blue coat, holding a black hat in his hand. There is a bowl and a book on the table. The scene is set against two trees flanking a twin-turreted castle; the figures stand on a flowered, grassy mound; grey steps run up from the centre front and round the castle. 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 painted, it is almost flat but with the backs of the turrets and steps moulded in. The underside of the base is recessed and flat. C.963A-1928 1 accession number C.963A-1928 76462 priref 76462 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/76462 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/76462 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 Entry date: 1928-12-07 1825 1825 CE 1825 circa 1825 1835 1 1835 CE 1835 circa 1835 production 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. This is one of a pair of closely related figure groups, representing a marriage at Gretna Green and a christening; both are represented in the collection. Both scenes were also made, with similar composition, by other potters. But as Dr Glaisher notes, here: ‘the modelling is very good, and the colours are peculiarly good and brilliant, and the details are carefully attended to’. The hollow turrets are designed to hold spills, used to light the fire. reference term-114523 adlib-term-114523 435b2a3c-ff47-31ed-bed3-17b95d739d0a 19th Century, first half reference term-107658 adlib-term-107658 824d3ecf-92c1-33aa-8d45-2f0239317270 literal England England country literal Staffordshire Staffordshire region Staffordshire reference term-107611 adlib-term-107611 790e5a19-a186-34d5-a16e-2d8dff9f6247 white earthenware Height cm 21.2 Width cm 26.6 reference media-47797 adlib-media-47797 f3321b83-63b6-3fca-aec3-2b8129db9490 jpeg aa/aa8/C_963A_1928_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 550 width pixels 760 1616285452420 1 image jpeg aa/aa8/mid_C_963A_1928_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 362 width pixels 500 1616285452420 1 image jpeg aa/aa8/C_963A_1928_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 550 width pixels 760 1616285452420 1 image jpeg aa/aa8/preview_C_963A_1928_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 181 width pixels 250 1616285452420 1 image 0 media image reference media-47798 adlib-media-47798 9b263a0a-4e2a-37b2-bb06-e68cb09b7083 jpeg aa/aa8/C_963A_1928_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 550 width pixels 760 1616268495147 1 image jpeg aa/aa8/mid_C_963A_1928_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 362 width pixels 500 1616268495147 1 image jpeg aa/aa8/C_963A_1928_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 550 width pixels 760 1616268495147 1 image jpeg aa/aa8/preview_C_963A_1928_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 181 width pixels 250 1616268495147 1 image 1 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 reference term-134397 adlib-term-134397 fc942b96-a7da-3d1b-ad6c-d32005c64e38 bocage figure group reference term-116876 adlib-term-116876 7d48aadc-47e9-3419-98a2-b9d9a5ea75f7 spill vase 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-76461 adlib-object-76461 9f12cd1a-b155-3d99-9dd9-4ee516b99da3

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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. 963, 963A 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. p.270, a very similar christening group, though with slight variations in the modeling, different bocage florets and no book on the table; bocage design linked to a different table-base design shown on p.271. 261-275 reference publication-6492 adlib-publication-6492 8f7a7c8d-d834-39c7-aba5-eddaaff4dd0c English Earthenware Figures 1740-1840 Cf. wedding and christening figure groups with very similar composition and the figures posed and dressed similarly, but not on table bases, with different bocage and not so finely modeled. Information on marriage and other family rituals at the time and examples of table base figure groups. 71,80 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. 92-94 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 reference term-25192 adlib-term-25192 4fd63092-f42a-33bf-a6b0-ba357f126af4 christening

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