IDENTIFIERS
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id:	15303
accession number:	C.13-1983

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Wednesday 15 July 2020

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Square, off-white, dust-pressed earthenware tile. Transfer printed design shows a seated allegorical figure of ‘Sculpture’ twisting to work on the hair of a bearded male head. In the background are a sculpted nude female figure and dolphin on a plinth; in the foreground, a book, tools and a plumb line. The figures and objects are filled with shaded blocks of colour. The woman’s skirt is magenta and her classical top yellow. She wears brown Roman sandals and a sprig of green foliage in her brown hair. The back of the tile is pressed into coffered squares, unglazed.
object type: Earthenware, transfer printed, hand-painted and glazed, in painted wood frame
title:	tile

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Purchased from Mrs Joan Eve, 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: Purchased with the J.R.V. Smyth Fund.

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/15303

PEOPLE
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Hollins, Michael Daintry
Minton, Herbert
Campbell, Colin Minton
Prosser, Richard
Sculpture

SUBJECTS
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sculpture
sculpture



TECHNIQUES
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dust-pressed earthenware moulded on one side, transfer-printed and hand-painted.
dust-pressing
TECHNIQUES
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transfer-printing
TECHNIQUES
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painting

CATEGORIES
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category: earthenware
category: dust-pressed earthenware

DATING
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creation date:	1875 - 1880
creation date earliest:	1875
creation date latest:	1880
culture:	late 19th Century

CREATORS
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maker: Minton Hollins & Co.
maker: unidentified artist

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 20.7

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 20.7



CITATIONS
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Collecting Victorian Tiles
Tiles and Tilework of Europe
Minton: The First Two Hundred Years of Design & Production
Minton 1798-1910
Dictionary of Minton
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IMAGES

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