IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 168441 accession number: C.882-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 9 May 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: White earthenware, moulded, covered overall with blue-tinted lead-glaze and painted in turquoise, pale yellow, flesh pink, dark pink, red, brown, dark reddish-brown, grey, and a black enamels. The hollow square base has a ventilation hole in the centre of the top. Its exterior has a moulding at the top and bottom of the sides, three of which are decorated with a patera coloured turquoise on the two sides, and dark pink and turquoise on the front. Dark reddish-brown lines run round the top edge, half way up the edge of the lower moulding, and in a rectangle around the patera on the front. Within that panel the words 'St' (t raised) 'Andrew' are inscribed in red on either side of the patera. The Saint stands with his right foot advanced, supporting the cross behind him with his right hand and holding his cloak with his right. He has grey hair and beard, and wears a pale yellow calf-length robe, over which is a bluish-white cloak scattered with red floral sprigs, draped around his shoulders at the back and held up at the front by a brooch on his left shoulder. Hanging below it at the back, he has a long turquoise cloak with a mottled dark pink lining. His sandals are dark reddish-brown. object type: Earthenware with blue-tinted lead-glaze, painted in enamels, and inscribed 'St Andrew' (t raised) in red on the front of the square pedestal title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Found in Portugal by the London dealer, Mr Stoner (probably Frank), who sold it on 15 December 1923 for £12 to Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, Trinity College, Cambridge LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: J. W. L. Glaisher creditline: Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/168441 PEOPLE ------------------- St Andrew SUBJECTS ------------------- Christianity cross cross TECHNIQUES ---------- moulding CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware category: pearlware category: enamel painted figures DATING ------ creation date: 1790 - 1800 creation date earliest: 1790 creation date latest: 1800 culture: 18th Century, Late culture: George III CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified Staffordshire factory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 38 dimension: Width units: cm value: 14 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Collecting Staffordshire Pottery British Ceramics and Staffordshire Figures English Earthenware Figures 1740-1840 A Potted History: Henry Willett's Ceramic Chronicle of Britain ---