IDENTIFIERS
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id:	71145
accession number:	C.1017-1928

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Tuesday 30 April 2024

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Eliza stands with her head turned towards her left; her left hand holds up her skirt to show her petticoat. The rounded-rectangular base is inscribed ‘ELIZA COOK’ in indented gilt capitals with three strokes of gilt to each side. The figure is well coloured. Eliza wears a full, three-tier, blue skirt, with the edges painted a darker blue; a white bodice, open at the neck and decorated with red flowers; a pink jacket displaying gilt-lined white cuffs; and a red necklace with a star-shaped pendant. Her brown hair falls in ringlets to her shoulders, and is caught at the top by an orange band. The underside is concave and glazed with a vent hole towards the left back corner. The back is moulded, but only the upper half is painted.
object type: White earthenware figure moulded in three parts, with separately moulded right arm, and lead glazed. Painted with black, brown, blue, red, pink and flesh-pink enamels, and gilt.
title:	figure

NOTES
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type: history note
value: ‘New Chelsea’ China Shop, Bournemouth; bought on 5 Jan 1917 for twelve shillings and sixpence, 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/71145

PEOPLE
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Cook, Eliza




TECHNIQUES
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White earthenware moulded in three parts, with separately moulded right arm, and lead glazed. Painted with black, brown, blue, red, pink and flesh-pink enamels, and gilt. The underside is concave and glazed with a vent hole towards the left back corner. The back is moulded, but only the upper half is 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:	1850 - 1850
creation date earliest:	1850
creation date latest:	1850
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: 11.2

dimension: Depth
units: in
value: 4.375

dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 25

dimension: Height
units: in
value: 9.875

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 13

dimension: Width
units: in
value: 5.25



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
Staffordshire Chimney Ornaments
Staffordshire Portrait Figures of the Victorian Age
Staffordshire Portrait Figures
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