IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 71129 accession number: C.1008-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 18 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Three well-coloured figures stand side by side, clasping hands, on a base inscribed 'TURKEY ENGLAND FRANCL' (sic). On the left, the Sultan wears a blue tunic, an orange turban and belt, white trousers and black shoes. In the middle, Victoria wears a gilded crown and a gown with blue bodice, ermine cape and a full white skirt, the latter edged with two rows of finely painted floral decoration in green, blue, red and dark pink. On the right, Napoleon III is bare-headed; he wears a short blue military jacket with white sash and epaulets, an orange belt; white breeches; and shiny black boots. All the clothing is richly decorated with gilt. The men have black hair, moustaches and beards. Victoria has long brown hair and youthful features. The base is rectangular, extending to an oval at the back; the inscription is in raised gilded capitals above a gilt line which dips down at the ends. The underside is concave and glazed, with a central vent hole. The back is decorated only above the shoulders, the remainder flat and marked with a criss-cross pattern of indentations in the clay. object type: White earthenware figure group moulded in three parts and pearlware glazed. Painted underglaze in cobalt blue and black and with black, grey, brown, red, orange, blue, green, pink and flesh-pink enamels, and gilt. title: figure group NOTES ----- type: history note value: Messrs Gill and Reigate in Oxford Street, W., London. Bought for £1.1.0. (one pound one shilling) by Dr Glaisher, Trinity College, Cambridge. Purchase date 11 February1905. 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, 1928 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/71129 PEOPLE ------------------- Queen Victoria Napoleon III (1852-70) Louis-Napoleon Sultan Abd-ul-Medjid SUBJECTS ------------------- Crimean War TECHNIQUES ---------- White earthenware moulded in three parts and pearlware glazed. Painted underglaze in cobalt blue and black and with black, grey, brown, red, orange, blue, green, pink and flesh-pink enamels, and gilt. The underside is concave and glazed, with a central vent hole. The back is decorated only above the shoulders, the remainder flat and marked with a criss-cross pattern of indentations in the clay. press-moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- painting TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing TECHNIQUES ---------- gilding CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware DATING ------ creation date: 1855 - 1855 creation date earliest: 1855 creation date latest: 1855 culture: 19th Century, Mid# culture: Victorian CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified factory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Depth units: cm value: 7.5 dimension: Depth units: in value: 3 dimension: Height units: cm value: 10.25 dimension: Height units: cm value: 26 dimension: Width units: cm value: 20 dimension: Width units: cm value: 7.9 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: The Human Touch: Making Art, Leaving Traces CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Turkey and Europe in a Cultural Context Staffordshire Portrait Figures and Allied Subjects of the Victorian Era Staffordshire Portrait Figures of the Victorian Age Victorian Staffordshire Figures 1835-1875, Book One: portraits, naval & military, theatrical & literary characters Staffordshire Figures Sampson Smith, manufacturer of all kinds if figures in great variety: a celebration Staffordshire Portrait Figures --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_1008_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_1008_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_1008_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_1008_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_1008_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_1008_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_1008_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_1008_1928_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/C_1008_1928.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 621 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/mid_C_1008_1928.jpg height: 612 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/C_1008_1928.jpg height: 760 pixels width: 621 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa20/preview_C_1008_1928.jpg height: 306 pixels width: 250 pixels