IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 206967 accession number: C.963B-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 17 November 2015 updated: Monday 29 April 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: The scene is set against two trees flanking a twin-turreted castle; the figures stand on a flowered, grassy mound; grey steps run up from the centre front and round the castle. It sits on a four-legged table base, painted brown, with a green top, and decorated with polychrome swags and a small brown moulded dog centre front. The back is painted, it is almost flat but with the backs of the turrets and steps moulded in. The underside of the base is recessed and flat. object type: Figure group of a marriage ceremony. A blacksmith, holding his hands together raised in prayer above a book which lies open on an anvil; the anvil and his hammers sit on top of a grey stump. Opposite him stand a finely dressed young couple, he in yellow breeches and a blue coat, she in a pink dress over a flowered skirt and wearing a feathered hat. A discarded basket lies in the centre. object type: Earthenware table figure group, moulded and modelled, lead glazed and painted with polychrome enamels. title: figure group NOTES ----- type: history note value: Captain Reynolds Collection, London; sold to Messrs Gill and Reigate; Mr Stoner, London, from whom purchased in 1910 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, Trinity College, Cambridge. Dr Glaisher paid £125 for this and fourteen other pieces, as part of a purchase of 35 figures and figure groups. 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/206967 SUBJECTS ------------------- marriage blacksmith TECHNIQUES ---------- Earthenware, moulded and modelled, lead glazed and painted with polychrome enamels. moulded CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware DATING ------ creation date: 1825 - 1835 creation date earliest: 1825 creation date latest: 1835 culture: 19th Century, first half CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified Pottery DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 21.2 dimension: Width units: cm value: 26.6 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge English Earthenware Figures 1740-1840 People, Passions, Pastimes, and Pleasures, Staffordshire Figures 1810-1835 Staffordshire Chimney Ornaments Plagiarism Personified? European Pottery and Porcelain Figures Fitzwilliam Museum Handbooks, English Pottery --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_963B_1928_281_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/mid_C_963B_1928_281_29.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_963B_1928_281_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/preview_C_963B_1928_281_29.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_963B_1928_282_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/mid_C_963B_1928_282_29.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_963B_1928_282_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/preview_C_963B_1928_282_29.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels