IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 185831 accession number: C.4-2011 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 8 November 2011 updated: Monday 18 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: The square base is encircled by a thick gilt line. Thomas Dartmouth Rice is dancing, right hand raised to his bowler hat, left hand on his hip, supported by a short pillar. The figure is well coloured. He has a black face and hands and wears: a pink jacket, touched with black; a blue waistcoat; a white shirt; a red neckerchief; yellow knee-breeches, decorated with squares of green; a brown hat and black shoes. His jacket, waistcoat, breeches and hat are edged in gilt. object type: White earthenware moulded in several parts. Painted in black, blue, red, pink, yellow and green enamels, and gilt. The underside is concave and glazed. The back is moulded and decorated, with a vent hole concealed under the figure's behind, 6.5 cm from the bottom. object type: Lead-glazed eartheware figure painted in enamels and gilt title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Gift of Ms Anne Stow LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Gift of Ms Anne Stow STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/185831 PEOPLE ------------------- Rice, Thomas Dartmouth Crow, Jim SUBJECTS ------------------- dancing dancing TECHNIQUES ---------- White earthenware moulded in several parts. Painted in black, blue, red, pink, yellow and green enamels, and gilt. The underside is concave and glazed. The back is moulded and decorated, with a vent hole concealed under the figure’s behind, 6.5 cm from the bottom. press moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- painting TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing TECHNIQUES ---------- gilding CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware DATING ------ creation date: 1836 - 1845 creation date earliest: 1836 creation date latest: 1845 culture: 19th Century, Mid# culture: Victoria I CREATORS -------- maker: Dudson DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 6 dimension: Diameter units: in value: 2.5 dimension: Height units: cm value: 16.5 dimension: Height units: in value: 6.5 CITATIONS -------- Dudson Staffordshire Figures Staffordshire Portrait Figures and Allied Subjects of the Victorian Era Staffordshire Pottery: The Tribal Art of England Victorian Staffordshire Figures 1835-1875, Book One: portraits, naval & military, theatrical & literary characters Dudson: a family of potters since 1800 Staffordshire Portrait Figures ---