IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 71141 accession number: C.1014-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 30 April 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Jenny Lind sits with her hands clasped around a pillar which supports a stone cross; she looks away from the cross, over her left shoulder. The rectangular base is rounded to the back and one side and decorated with an impressed pattern and gilt touches; the front is moulded in rococo style and bears the title ‘Jenny Lind as Alice in Meyerbeer’s Opera’ in gilt script, on a ribbon. The figure is well coloured. The cross is grey, outlined in black, and a pink and green vine winds up the pillar. Jenny Lind wears a low blue bodice with pink cuffs, a tartan sash with red tasselled edge, and a flowered yellow skirt. Her black hair is tied back in a bun. The underside is concave and glazed. The back is moulded and decorated for the upper body only, and has a vent hole 12.5cm from the bottom. object type: White earthenware figure moulded in three parts and pearlware glazed. Painted with black, grey, blue, red, pink, green yellow and flesh-pink enamels, and gilt. title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Wm Brough and Sons, 312 and 313 Broad Street, Birmingham, bought on 29 May, 1913 for £2 and five shillings, 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/71141 PEOPLE ------------------- Jullien, Louis Antoine Lind, Jenny SUBJECTS ------------------- opera TECHNIQUES ---------- White earthenware moulded in three parts and pearlware glazed. Painted with black, grey, blue, red, pink, green yellow and flesh-pink enamels, and gilt. The underside is concave and glazed. The back is moulded and decorated for the upper body only, and has a vent hole 12.5cm from the bottom. press moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- painting TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing TECHNIQUES ---------- gilding CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware DATING ------ creation date: 1847 - 1847 creation date earliest: 1847 creation date latest: 1847 culture: 19th Century, Mid culture: Victoria I CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified factory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Depth units: cm value: 12.5 dimension: Depth units: in value: 5 dimension: Height units: cm value: 34.5 dimension: Height units: in value: 13.5 dimension: Width units: cm value: 18.5 dimension: Width units: in value: 7.25 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 The Victorian Staffordshire Figure Staffordshire Portrait Figures of the Victorian Age Staffordshire Portrait Figures --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_1014_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_1014_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_1014_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_1014_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_1014_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_1014_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_1014_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_1014_1928_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels