IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 71122 accession number: C.1002-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 18 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: The oval base is inscribed ‘Grace Darling’ in gilt script. Grace and her father face each other in a boat, on choppy water, with a lighthouse and cottage on rocky cliffs behind. The model is well coloured. The small figures have blue jackets, and her skirt is decorated in pink and green. The boat and the lighthouse are salmon pink; the latter has a red-brown door, three moulded windows, and a white lantern top decorated in gold and topped by a pink ball. The house has a red-brown door and a pink roof; there is gilt on its two windows and chimney. The scene is outlined in shards of clay, painted pink, brown and green to suggest vegetation. The underside is concave and glazed. The back is flat, with part missing. object type: White earthenware ornament moulded in three parts with additional modelled boat containing figures, and shards of clay used as decoration. Painted in underglaze blue, and in black, brown, green, pink, yellow and salmon pink enamels, and gilt. title: model scene NOTES ----- type: history note value: no information 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/71122 PEOPLE ------------------- Darling, Grace SUBJECTS ------------------- lighthouse Farne Islands rescue at sea TECHNIQUES ---------- White earthenware moulded in three parts with additional modelled boat containing figures, and shards of clay used as decoration. Painted in underglaze blue, and in black, brown, green, pink, yellow and salmon pink enamels, and gilt. The underside is concave and glazed. The back is flat, with part missing. press-moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- painting TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing TECHNIQUES ---------- gilding CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware DATING ------ creation date: 1840 - 1840 creation date earliest: 1840 creation date latest: 1840 culture: 19th Century, Mid# culture: Victorian CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified factory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Depth units: cm value: 9 dimension: Depth units: in value: 3.5 dimension: Height units: cm value: 16.5 dimension: Height units: in value: 6.5 dimension: Width units: cm value: 13.5 dimension: Width units: in value: 5.25 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Staffordshire Portrait Figures and Allied Subjects of the Victorian Era Staffordshire Portrait Figures of the Victorian Age Victorian Staffordshire Figures 1835-1875, Book One: portraits, naval & military, theatrical & literary characters Staffordshire Pottery: The Tribal Art of England Staffordshire Portrait Figures --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_1002_1928_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/mid_C_1002_1928_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_1002_1928_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/preview_C_1002_1928_281_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_1002_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/mid_C_1002_1928_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_1002_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/preview_C_1002_1928_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels