IDENTIFIERS
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id:	185831
accession number:	C.4-2011

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Tuesday 8 November 2011
updated:	Monday 18 December 2023

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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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
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type: history note
value: Gift of Ms Anne Stow


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: Gift of Ms Anne Stow

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/185831

PEOPLE
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Rice, Thomas Dartmouth
Crow, Jim

SUBJECTS
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dancing
dancing



TECHNIQUES
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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
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painting
TECHNIQUES
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lead-glazing
TECHNIQUES
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gilding

CATEGORIES
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category: lead-glazed earthenware

DATING
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creation date:	1836 - 1845
creation date earliest:	1836
creation date latest:	1845
culture:	19th Century, Mid#
culture:	Victoria I

CREATORS
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maker: Dudson

DIMENSIONS
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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
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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
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