IDENTIFIERS
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id:	71141
accession number:	C.1014-1928

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Wednesday 15 July 2020

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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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
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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
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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/71141

PEOPLE
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Jullien, Louis Antoine
Lind, Jenny

SUBJECTS
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opera



TECHNIQUES
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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
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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:	1847 - 1847
creation date earliest:	1847
creation date latest:	1847
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: 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
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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
The Victorian Staffordshire Figure
Staffordshire Portrait Figures of the Victorian Age
Staffordshire Portrait Figures
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