IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 313146 accession number: C.926B-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 22 August 2023 updated: Tuesday 19 September 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: White earthenware, press-moulded, covered with strongly blue-tinted lead-glaze, and painted in blue, turquoise-green, flesh pink, puce pink, orange, dark brown, grey and black enamels; the glazed underside is open up to the base of the vase, and has small slits under the lambs. The roughly oval base has an undulating surface and is coloured turquoise-green. Five pale grey lambs of different sizes recline across the front.. The base rises up into a mound in the middle and has a projecting ledge on which is a reclining black dog. Behind it is the stepped base of a tall pedestal which supports the vase, and has on the front a rectangular panel decorated with a putto holding a palm. The edges of the two steps and the edges of the pedestal are outlined in dark brown. A grey-haired girl wearing a low-necked white gown spotted in turquoise and orange and having blue edges and belt, stands on the left of the pedestal, and on the right is a grey-haired nude boy partly covered by a puce and turquoise drape. Their inside arms rest on the back of the fluted circular foot of the vase. Its upper part is of a flattened and shaped oval form with two strap handles rising above the wavy rim, Its lower part has bats' wing fluting picked out in blue; above on each side are two garlands of puce flowers and foliage suspended from a raised blue band around the shoulder; and the area below the rim has border of blue striations. The edges of the handle and its leaf terminals are outlined in blue. One of a pair with C.926A-1928 object type: lead-glazed earthenware covered with blue tinted lead-glaze and painted in polychrome enamels; a boy and girl standing on either side of the pedestal of a vase, with a dog and five lambs lying on the mound base below them. title: vase NOTES ----- type: history note value: Stewart Acton, Brighton, from whom purchased for £35 with its pair on 22 April 1918 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, 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/313146 PEOPLE ------------------- girl boy putto SUBJECTS ------------------- dog lamb dog lamb TECHNIQUES ---------- white earthenware, press-moulded, covered with blue tinted lead-glaze, and painted in blue, turquoise-green, flesh pink, puce pink, orange, dark brown, grey and black enamels; the glazed underside is open as far as the base of the vase, and has small slits under the lambs press-moulding CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware category: pearlware category: enamel painted figures DATING ------ creation date: 1790 - 1795 creation date earliest: 1790 creation date latest: 1795 culture: late 18th century culture: George III CREATORS -------- maker: Neale & Co. maker: Wilson, Robert (d. 1801) DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 31 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge The Wood Family of Burslem A Collector's History of English Pottery ---