IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 71145 accession number: C.1017-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Wednesday 15 July 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- 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 ----- 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 --------- 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/71145 PEOPLE ------------------- Cook, Eliza TECHNIQUES ---------- 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 ---------- painting TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing TECHNIQUES ---------- gilding CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware DATING ------ creation date: 1850 - 1850 creation date earliest: 1850 creation date latest: 1850 culture: 19th Century, Mid# culture: Victoria I CREATORS -------- maker: Alpha factory DIMENSIONS ---------- 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 -------- 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 --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_1017_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_1017_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_1017_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_1017_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_1017_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_1017_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_1017_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_1017_1928_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels