IDENTIFIERS
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id:	12091
accession number:	C.12-2000

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Monday 18 December 2023

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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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
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type: history note
value: Purchased from Gabor Cossa (Mr Martyn Edgell), Trumpington Street, Cambridge


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
creditline: Given by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/12091


SUBJECTS
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twelve signs of the zodiac
star-shape
twelve signs of the zodiac
star-shape



TECHNIQUES
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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
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category: earthenware
category: creamware
category: Queen's ware

DATING
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creation date:	1955 - 1955
creation date earliest:	1955
creation date latest:	1955
culture:	20th Century, Mid#
culture:	Elizabeth II

CREATORS
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maker: Josiah Wedgwood & Sons
maker: Machin, Arnold

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 16.2

dimension: Length
units: cm
value: 40.2



CITATIONS
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Wedgwood Ceramics 1846-1959
Wedgwood
Arnold Machin, O.B.E., A.R.C.A.
Ceramics at the Festival of Britain: Progress or Tradition?
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