IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 43369 accession number: C.3066-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 25 August 2015 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Bone china, slip-cast, and clear-glazed. The underside is unglazed and has a large oval ventilation hole in the centre. The oval low mound base has a barrel at the back with applied flowers and leaves on the ground on either side of it, and further forward, three clumps of ‘moss’. Dr Syntax sits on the barrel sketching in a book which rests on his knees. He wears a tricorn hat, a bow round his neck, a buttoned up jacket, breeches and shoes. In front of him, facting towards the viewer are two seated ducks or geese. object type: Bone china, slip-cast, and glazed. title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Purchased from Mrs E. Spencer, 'Old Village Museum', Shanklin, Isle of Wight, on 21 September 1922 for 10s. 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/43369 PEOPLE ------------------- Dr Syntax SUBJECTS ------------------- sketching sketching TECHNIQUES ---------- bone china, slip-cast and glazed slip-casting CATEGORIES ------ category: bone china DATING ------ creation date: 1865 - 1870 creation date earliest: 1865 creation date latest: 1870 culture: 19th Century, third quarter# CREATORS -------- maker: Derby Porcelain Factory, King Street maker: Stevenson and Hancock maker: Keys, Edward DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 13 dimension: Width units: cm value: 6.8 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Beauty, Horror and Immensity, Picturesque Landscape in Britain, 1750-1850 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Beauty, Horror and Immensity: picturesque landscape in Britain 1750-1850 The Old Derby China Factory Derby Porcelain Figures 1750-1848 Royal Crown Derby Ceramics of Derbyshire 1750-1975 ---