IDENTIFIERS
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id:	38101
accession number:	C.3087-1928

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Tuesday 25 February 2020

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Soft-paste porcelain figure, an actor, possibly David Garrick. Glassy white soft-paste porcelain, slip-cast, and lead-glazed. The actor stands with his left hand on his breast, his right resting on an open book which is supported on a waisted socle moulded with the mask of Tragedy; he is bare-headed, with a cloak flung loosely over his partially unbuttoned jacket and knee breeches. Supported on a rectangular, straight-sided slab base.
object type: Soft-paste porcelain figure of an actor, possibly David Garrick, standing beside a pedestal
title:	figure

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Bought from Mr Frank Stoner, November 10th 1919, for £18-10s by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trintity College, Cambridge.


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
collection:	J. W. L. Glaisher
creditline: Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/38101

PEOPLE
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Garrick, David




TECHNIQUES
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glassy, white soft-paste porcelain, slip-cast and lead-glazed
slip-casting
TECHNIQUES
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glazing (coating)

CATEGORIES
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category: porcelain
category: soft-paste porcelain

DATING
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creation date:	1756 - 1760
creation date earliest:	1756
creation date latest:	1760
culture:	18th Century, Mid#
culture:	George II

CREATORS
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maker: Vauxhall Porcelain Factory
maker: Longton Hall Porcelain Manufactory
maker: Littler, William

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 20.5



CITATIONS
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Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge
Longton Hall Porcelain
English Ceramics 1580-1830, A Commemorative Catalogue to Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the English Ceramic Circle 1927-1977
Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Ceramics, Catalogue of English Porcelain, Earthenware, Enamels and Glass collected by Charles Schreiber Esq., M.P.,  and the Lady Charlotte Elizabeth Schreiber, and presented to the Museum in 1884, Volume I, Porcelain
Marketing Celebrity: Porcelain and Theatrical Display
Vauxhall porcelain figures
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