IDENTIFIERS
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id:	71125
accession number:	C.1005-1928

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 square base is lettered ‘R. Cobden’, in gilt script, with three strokes of gilt to each side. Richard Cobden sits on a bench, his left foot on a cushion or footstool; his left hand rests on his knee, his right holds a scroll. The figure is well coloured. Cobden is dressed in a blue tail coat with gilt lapels, black striped trousers, a white waistcoat with finely painted black edging and buttons, and a black neckerchief. He wears mutton chop whiskers. Beside him is a cornucopia: a brown container from which multi coloured flowers tumble. The underside is concave and glazed, with a triangular vent hole towards the back left. The back is moulded and painted.
object type: White earthenware moulded in three parts with separately moulded forearms, and pearlware glazed. Painted underglaze in cobalt blue, and with black, brown, pink, red, yellow, green and flesh-pink enamels, and gilt.
title:	figure

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Mr Frost at Hitchin; bought on November 26 1908 for five shillings, by Dr Glaister, 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/71125

PEOPLE
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Cobden, Richard

SUBJECTS
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Corn Laws reform
Member of Parliament
Stockport
cornucopia
cornucopia



TECHNIQUES
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White earthenware moulded in three parts with separately moulded forearms, and pearlware glazed. Painted underglaze in cobalt blue, and with black, brown, pink, red, yellow, green and flesh-pink enamels, and gilt. The underside is concave and glazed, with a triangular vent hole towards the back left. The back is moulded and painted.
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:	1846 - 1846
creation date earliest:	1846
creation date latest:	1846
culture:	19th Century, Mid#
culture:	Victoria I

CREATORS
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maker: Alpha factory

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Depth
units: cm
value: 8

dimension: Depth
units: in
value: 3.125

dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 15.5

dimension: Height
units: in
value: 6.125

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 6.7

dimension: Width
units: in
value: 2.625



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 Chimney Ornaments
Staffordshire Portrait Figures of the Victorian Age
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