IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 12091 accession number: C.12-2000 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 3 February 2025 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Creamware (Queen's ware), slip-cast in two halves, glazed, and decorated with lithograph prints in pink, yellow, dark brown, and grey, and painted in dark brown enamel. The stylised bull stands on all four feet with its head lowered and its tail waving against its left hind quarter. The body is scattered with vignettes of the zodiac signs and symbols in pink and brown or yellow and brown with grey backgrounds, interspersed with brown and yellow stars. The details of the bull's head and tail are painted in dark brown enamel, and round each foot is a band with a row of groups of three short strokes above it. title: animal figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Purchased from Gabor Cossa (Mr Martyn Edgell), Trumpington Street, Cambridge LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/12091 SUBJECTS ------------------- twelve signs of the zodiac star-shape twelve signs of the zodiac star-shape TECHNIQUES ---------- Creamware (Queensware), slip-cast in two halves, glazed, and decorated with lithograph prints in pink, yellow, dark brown, and grey, and painted in dark brown enamel slip casting CATEGORIES ------ category: earthenware category: creamware category: Queen's ware DATING ------ creation date: 1955 - 1955 creation date earliest: 1955 creation date latest: 1955 culture: 20th Century, Mid culture: Elizabeth II CREATORS -------- maker: Josiah Wedgwood & Sons maker: Machin, Arnold DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 16.2 dimension: Length units: cm value: 40.2 CITATIONS -------- Wedgwood Ceramics 1846-1959 Wedgwood Arnold Machin, O.B.E., A.R.C.A. Ceramics at the Festival of Britain: Progress or Tradition? --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa6/C_12_2000_281_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa6/mid_C_12_2000_281_29.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa6/C_12_2000_281_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa6/preview_C_12_2000_281_29.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa6/C_12_2000_282_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa6/mid_C_12_2000_282_29.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa6/C_12_2000_282_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa6/preview_C_12_2000_282_29.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels