Bull
Factory: Mafra Factory
Earthenware painted in blue, green, manganese-brown and white under lead glaze
History note: Purchased at Gibralter from Benthel ? for £1 on 2 January 1908 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 36 cm
Length: 42.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
19th Century, Late#
Circa
1890
CE
-
1900
CE
This model was probably derived from a marble, bronze or plaster bull after the antique. The type was derived from a Roman bull from Ostia, in the Sala degli Animali of the Museo Pio Clementino in the Vatican, illustrated in Ennio Quirino Visconti's 'Museo Pio Clementino', vol. VII, 1809, pl. XXXI, 2. The pottery model is very close in size to an 18th century bronze bull in the Ashmolean Museum, acquired in Genoa in 1848 by C.D.E. Fortnum
Decoration
presumed
Lead-glaze
Earthenware
Inscription present: a crown with the words below it
Accession number: Glaisher MS Catalogue 2771
Primary reference Number: 169688
2771
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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