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Jenny Lind (as 'Marie'): C.1003-1928

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Current Location: Gallery 27 (Glaisher)

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Jenny Lind (as 'Marie')

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Description

White earthenware moulded in three parts and pearlware glazed. Painted in underglaze cobalt blue and with black, red, green, pink and flesh-pink enamels, and gilt.

The oval base is flattened to a half-hexagon at the front and lettered ‘MD Lind’ in gilt script, with three gilt strokes to either side. The figure is well coloured. Jenny Lind stands with her right hand raised to her green hat. She wears a blue jacket with a gilt-edged white collar. Her skirt has broad pink stripes, gold buttons down the front and additional decoration lines in black. She wears red boots and her green hat has a thin black band. The underside is concave and glazed, with a central vent hole (covered by a label). The back is moulded, but decorated only above the waist.

Notes

History note: 109 S. 15th Street Philadelphia U.S.A, bought on 23 April 1910, for $4, by Dr Glaisher, Trinity College, Cambridge

Legal notes

Dr J.W.L.Glaisher Bequest

Measurements and weight

Depth: 6.2 cm
Depth: 2.375 in
Height: 20 cm
Height: 7.875 in
Width: 7.6 cm
Width: 3 in

Place(s) associated

  • Staffordshire

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr

Dating

19th Century, Mid#
Victoria I
Production date: circa AD 1847

School or Style

Victorian

People, subjects and objects depicted

Components of the work

Decoration composed of enamels ( black, red, green, pink and flesh-pink) underglaze cobalt-blue gold

Materials used in production

White earthenware
Lead-glaze

Techniques used in production

Press moulding : White earthenware moulded in three parts and pearlware glazed. Painted in underglaze cobalt blue and with black, red, green, pink and flesh-pink enamels, and gilt. The underside is concave and glazed, with a central vent hole (covered by a label). The back is moulded, but decorated only above the waist.
Painting
Lead-glazing
Gilding

Inscription or legends present

Inscription present: gilt script, with three gilt strokes to either side

  • Text: MD LIND
  • Location: Front of base
  • Method of creation: Painted in gilt script
  • Type: Name

Inscription present: rectangular paper label, faded ink

  • Text: No. 3140 Staffordshire figure of Jenny Lind. b. in Philadelphia [date illegible] 1910
  • Location: Underside of base
  • Method of creation: Handwritten in black ink
  • Type: Label

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Identification numbers

Accession number: C.1003-1928
Primary reference Number: 71123
Old object number: 3140
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Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Monday 18 December 2023 Last processed: Monday 18 December 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts

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