IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 71177 accession number: C.1020-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 30 April 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: The oval base is lettered ‘MISS F NIGHTINGALE’ in raised and gilded capitals. Florence Nightingale stands gazing upwards; she holds a tray bearing two cups in her right hand. The figure is well coloured. She wears a long, pink, waisted bodice, a gilt edged collar with a large green bow, a full yellow skirt decorated with dark pink sprigs, and a tasselled girdle which is edged in gilt; a gold slipper shows beneath her hem. She has blue eyes and her hair is brown, tied back in a bun. The tray and cups are gilt edged. The underside is concave and glazed, with a small vent hole towards the centre back. Only the upper half of the back is fully moulded, the lower part being roughly shaped to suggest the folds of a skirt. object type: White earthenware figure moulded in three parts, with separately modelled right hand carrying a tray, and pearlware glazed. Painted with brown, blue, green, pink, yellow and flesh-pink enamels, and gilt. title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Terrace Walk, North Parade, Bath. Bought on 6 January 1915, for 12/6 (twelve shillings and sixpence) by Dr Glaisher, Trinity College. 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/71177 PEOPLE ------------------- Nightingale, Florence SUBJECTS ------------------- Crimean War nursing TECHNIQUES ---------- White earthenware moulded in three parts, with separately modelled right hand carrying a tray, and pearlware glazed. Painted with brown, blue, green, pink, yellow and flesh-pink enamels, and gilt. The underside is concave and glazed, with a small vent hole towards the centre back. Only the upper half of the back is fully moulded, the lower part being roughly shaped to suggest the folds of a skirt. press moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- painting TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing TECHNIQUES ---------- gilding CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware DATING ------ creation date: 1855 - 1860 creation date earliest: 1855 creation date latest: 1860 culture: 19th Century, Mid culture: Victoria I CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified factory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Depth units: cm value: 8.1 dimension: Depth units: in value: 3.25 dimension: Height units: cm value: 27 dimension: Height units: in value: 5.625 dimension: Width units: cm value: 10.5 dimension: Width units: in value: 5.375 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 Portrait Figures of the Victorian Age 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_1020_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_1020_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_1020_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_1020_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_1020_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_1020_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_1020_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_1020_1928_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels