IDENTIFIERS
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id:	71124
accession number:	C.1004-1928

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Monday 18 December 2023

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: The round base has a moulded pattern to the top and is inscribed ‘J J Gurney’ in gilt script. John Joseph Gurney stands in relaxed pose, with crossed ankles; his right hand rests on his hip and his left holds a book, which rests against a short, waisted, pillar. The figure is well coloured. Gurney wears a long, blue, cut-away jacket, a flesh-pink waistcoat edged and decorated in black and a high collar; a watch hangs at his waist on his right side. He is clean shaven, with grey hair. The pillar is green, with pink bands at the top and bottom.  The underside is concave and glazed, with a central round vent hole. The upper part of the back is moulded and decorated, and there is a flat, 0.6cm, vent hole 6.8cm from the bottom.
object type: White earthenware moulded in three parts with separately moulded left arm and leg, and pearlware glazed. Painted underglaze in cobalt blue and with black, grey, red, pink, green and flesh-pink enamels, and gilt.
title:	figure

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Mr John Beazor, Dene House, Yarmouth, bought on 20 May 1914, for twelve shillings and sixpence, by Dr Glaisher, Trinity 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/71124

PEOPLE
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Fry, Elizabeth
Peel, Robert
Gurney, Joseph John

SUBJECTS
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Quaker religion
prison reform



TECHNIQUES
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White earthenware moulded in three parts with separately moulded left arm and leg, and pearlware glazed. Painted underglaze in cobalt blue and with black, grey, red, pink, green and flesh-pink enamels, and gilt. The underside is concave and glazed, with a central round vent hole. The upper part of the back is moulded and decorated, and there is a flat, 0.6cm, vent hole 6.8cm from the bottom.
press moulding
TECHNIQUES
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painting
TECHNIQUES
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lead-glazing
TECHNIQUES
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gilding

CATEGORIES
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category: lead-glazed earthenware

DATING
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creation date:	1845 - 1845
creation date earliest:	1845
creation date latest:	1845
culture:	19th Century, Mid#
culture:	Victoria I

CREATORS
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maker: Unidentified factory

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Depth
units: cm
value: 7.3

dimension: Depth
units: in
value: 2.875

dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 25.5

dimension: Height
units: in
value: 10

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 9

dimension: Width
units: in
value: 3.5



CITATIONS
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Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge
Staffordshire Portrait Figures and Allied Subjects of the Victorian Era
Victorian Staffordshire Figures 1835-1875, Book One: portraits, naval & military, theatrical & literary characters
Staffordshire Portrait Figures of the Victorian Age
The Victorian Staffordshire Figure
Staffordshire Chimney Ornaments
Staffordshire Portrait Figures
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