15929910390001312637261000Standard Recordobject-71123170292704804517029085020001702926927797fitz-onlineadlib-object-71123https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/71123dba52240-a6a7-39c8-8a5d-018954c7aea97referenceagent-187975adlib-agent-1879756512f97a-6abd-382a-92dc-71a4b25cd8caJullien, Louis Antoinepersonreferenceagent-153766adlib-agent-1537667c9fab25-9afd-36aa-bb16-409e985b486dLind, Jennyreferenceterm-108657adlib-term-108657c170cd8e-fc63-3446-81a4-6682b5979808lead-glazed earthenwarereferenceterm-113184adlib-term-11318425fc548d-d02f-39a6-a34f-d609393a0043J. W. L. Glaisherblack, red, green, pink and flesh-pinkreferenceterm-107563adlib-term-10756338dcd825-1de1-3222-82c6-15a95729b5ffenamelsreferenceterm-110416adlib-term-1104167347190c-472e-3638-b3f2-acd96e09c0cfunderglaze cobalt-bluereferenceterm-39593adlib-term-39593e3e2a3f8-2433-3f63-9bcf-e776644d312dgoldDecorationreferenceterm-98112adlib-term-9811232d115a4-d3ac-33b0-b126-2a3da0fdf139portraitApplied ArtsWhite 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.C.1003-19281accession numberC.1003-192871123priref71123191019101910old object number3140urihttps://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/71123https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/71123gilt script, with three gilt strokes to either sidefront of basepainted in gilt scriptMD LINDnamerectangular paper label, faded inkunderside of basehandwritten in black inkNo. 3140 Staffordshire figure of Jenny Lind. b. in Philadelphia [date illegible] 1910labelreferenceagent-149638adlib-agent-1496387376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8The Fitzwilliam MuseumDr J.W.L.Glaisher Bequestreferenceagent-152564adlib-agent-152564c20df94d-f096-3e0b-a9b5-6ddd12161fb7Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr192819281928bequeathedEntry date: 1928-12-071847CE1847circa1847Following Pugh (1970) and Balston (1958), it seems more likely that this figure was made by the ‘Alpha Factory’, an as yet unidentified producer whose figures share a number of common features. Here these include: well moulded in the round; underglaze cobalt blue; and the title in gilt script bracketed by three strokes of gilt. According to Pugh, certain ‘Alpha factory’ figures may be found with the title either in indented capitals or in gilt script. Pugh also lists another figure of Jenny Lind as ‘Marie’ (Plate E81, Fig.120) as ‘Alpha factory’.Jenny Lind (1820-1887), was a Swedish-born opera soprano. Mendelssohn wrote the soprano part in Elijah for her, and she sang with Verdi. She is believed to have inspired several Hans Christian Andersen stories, including The Ugly Duckling and The Emperor’s Nightingale. She performed the role of Marie in Donizetti’s two-act opera La figlia del reggimento (the daughter of the regiment) in 1847. This was shortly after her London debut as Alice in Meyerbeer’s Roberto il diavolo – when, it is said, Queen Victoria threw her a bouquet from the Royal Box.Rackham (1935) lists this figure as of a type made chiefly by Sampson Smith at Longton. Sampson Smith is listed in contemporary directories as a ‘manufacturer of figures in great variety’ in Longton and seems to have begun making figures around 1851, moving to Sutherland Works in 1859. The firm continued to make figures in quantity into the early part of the twentieth century, and again from 1948 when a number of original moulds were found on site (see Haggar (1955), pp.102-107, 148). But Sampson Smith figures were rarely marked, and there were many other, often smaller, manufacturers of figures working in Staffordshire at this time.The source for this figure is the illustration on a music cover by John Branard for Jullien’s Celebrated Polkas No.16, inscribed ‘Jenny Lind in the character of Maria [sic] in Donizetti’s opera La Figlia del Reggimento’referenceterm-109672adlib-term-109672a788e98b-c8a4-313c-9617-1a812228e86419th Century, Mid#referenceterm-120127adlib-term-120127ee2ddbd4-503c-30f5-8cf9-3c2d121bd315Victoria Ireferenceterm-107658adlib-term-107658824d3ecf-92c1-33aa-8d45-2f0239317270Staffordshirereferenceterm-107611adlib-term-107611790e5a19-a186-34d5-a16e-2d8dff9f6247white earthenwarereferenceterm-107733adlib-term-10773300160189-e3ce-3796-a88b-5aa8d6c808c4lead-glazeDepthcm6.2Depthin2.375Heightcm20Heightin7.875Widthcm7.6Widthin3referencemedia-33881adlib-media-33881dbe43b4b-6081-36c8-b219-f8445724e4a1jpegaa/aa2/C_1003_1928_281_29.jpg1heightpixels740widthpixels57017029263506151imagejpegaa/aa2/mid_C_1003_1928_281_29.jpg1heightpixels649widthpixels50017029263506151imagejpegaa/aa2/C_1003_1928_281_29.jpg1heightpixels740widthpixels57017029263506151imagejpegaa/aa2/preview_C_1003_1928_281_29.jpg1heightpixels325widthpixels25017029263506151image0media
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imagereferenceterm-107454adlib-term-1074546ca0f2ab-c1f8-329d-8a45-8f1322f53a20figureobject namereferenceterm-130674adlib-term-1306742728ba11-801b-318a-8f24-c6f4b99f08e3Victorian Staffordshire figurecategoryreferenceterm-130678adlib-term-130678c683fbc6-ba3a-3ab1-b2f5-41493ff3588dflat-backed figurecategoryhistory note109 S. 15th Street Philadelphia U.S.A, bought on 23 April 1910, for $4, by Dr Glaisher, Trinity College, Cambridge1referenceobject-71132adlib-object-71132bdc797ca-440e-3608-8d79-743f5b21d8c31reference1term-107454adlib-term-1074546ca0f2ab-c1f8-329d-8a45-8f1322f53a20figurefigure1referenceobject-71141adlib-object-711419ff02212-6497-3d31-b583-4b641982e8481reference1term-107454adlib-term-1074546ca0f2ab-c1f8-329d-8a45-8f1322f53a20figurefigure1referenceobject-14972adlib-object-14972dc9e4bf6-47cf-3e4a-be34-33fb78425d9d1reference1term-107959adlib-term-107959a399d528-e9eb-3a28-8780-19d819e23227pot lidpot lid1referenceobject-215900adlib-object-2159005ced3fd6-b763-347a-8fa3-d340918050c01reference1term-23035adlib-term-23035f9693b6b-2e4a-3666-acf8-973403f65fcebustbust1referenceobject-215901adlib-object-21590138405c95-2a2c-354d-b9ba-3bc7fd2067fb1reference1term-23035adlib-term-23035f9693b6b-2e4a-3666-acf8-973403f65fcebustbustreferenceagent-149638adlib-agent-1496387376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8The Fitzwilliam MuseumPubl. Vol. I, p.130, no. 1003130referencepublication-1031adlib-publication-1031a5cc6cb3-2b6f-390a-af51-7e9d123e55edCatalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum CambridgeCf. Plate E83, Fig.164: a similarly posed figure, although less sharply moulded, with longer skirt, only lightly coloured and with title in indented capitals; p.74, Plate 49 shows this figure with a music cover by John Branard for Jullien’s Celebrated Polkas No.16, the illustration on which is inscribed ‘Jenny Lind in the character of Maria [sic] in Donizetti’s opera La Figlia del Reggimento’. Pugh also shows: Fig.165: a spill vase with this and a male character beside a tree trunk; Fig.176: a similarly dressed figure, though without the raised arm and on a more ornate base, with a further John Branard music front depicting Jenny Lind as Maria; and a number of other figures of Jenny Lind (pp.452-456).454referencepublication-3585adlib-publication-3585784308ef-9535-3132-970c-45af8a273a64Staffordshire Portrait Figures and Allied Subjects of the Victorian EraCf. Figs. 1300-1303, 1330 and 1335: a range of figures of Jenny Lind in character, including a similarly dressed figure, though differently moulded and decorated, representing her role as Marie. Also, p.345, Fig. 1300 SO: the music cover by John Branard for Jullien’s Celebrated Polkas No.16, which illustrates Jenny Lind as Maria.345referencepublication-7227adlib-publication-72276dc55e19-7dee-3713-a8a4-c81f86e35351Victorian Staffordshire Figures 1835-1875, Book One: portraits, naval & military, theatrical & literary charactersCf. Fig.75: the same figure, though with different enamels, without the underglaze blue and with title in capitals. Also Fig.76: another figure of Jenny Lind, in different dress, later in the same opera.59referencepublication-7214adlib-publication-72145837e427-2875-313b-a414-8210d452c972The Victorian Staffordshire Figurereferencepublication-7217adlib-publication-7217c1860f2b-473e-3562-a129-4344ff68ed22Staffordshire Portrait Figuresreferenceterm-15214adlib-term-15214744af2c4-a2f2-37ad-bbf4-2cd00e91ed9bVictorianreferenceterm-106338adlib-term-1063381bd59a2c-b62d-3e51-9d96-d7cf16e66bb1operareferenceterm-107454adlib-term-1074546ca0f2ab-c1f8-329d-8a45-8f1322f53a20figurefigureWhite 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.in three partsreferenceterm-130724adlib-term-13072494dc0522-7bb7-3aa7-a884-0878f90b9d28press mouldingreferenceterm-106226adlib-term-106226194567f2-2bcd-3446-ae31-652386611815paintingreferenceterm-120062adlib-term-120062d05176fb-17b8-3888-bba1-6c5e6c77d206lead-glazingreferenceterm-28681adlib-term-28681c1f659e2-1209-31cf-8ff4-154e11452559gildingJenny Lind (as 'Marie')object
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