IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 71124 accession number: C.1004-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 30 April 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- 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 ----- 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 --------- 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/71124 PEOPLE ------------------- Fry, Elizabeth Peel, Robert Gurney, Joseph John SUBJECTS ------------------- Quaker religion prison reform TECHNIQUES ---------- 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 ---------- painting TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing TECHNIQUES ---------- gilding CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware DATING ------ creation date: 1845 - 1845 creation date earliest: 1845 creation date latest: 1845 culture: 19th Century, Mid culture: Victoria I CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified factory DIMENSIONS ---------- 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 -------- 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 --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_1004_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_1004_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_1004_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_1004_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_1004_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_1004_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_1004_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_1004_1928_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels