IDENTIFIERS
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id:	71185
accession number:	C.1023A-1928

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Monday 18 December 2023

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: The oval base is inscribed ‘SIR JOHN FRANKLIN’, painted in partly-incised gilt capitals with three gilt strokes to either side. The figure is mainly white, with features picked out in enamels and gilt. Sir John stands in front of a brown painted rock, on brown painted ground.  He wears uniform, with medals, epaulets, gold buttons and bicorne (or cocked) hat; his collar and shoes are black. He carries a telescope which is coloured orange and grey with black bands. The back is moulded, with a vent hole 9cm from the bottom.
object type: White earthenware figure moulded in three parts, with separately moulded telescope, and lead glazed. Painted with brown, black, orange, grey and flesh-pink enamels, and gilt. The underside is concave and glazed.
title:	figure

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Mr Delves at Rye; bought as a pair with Lady Franklin, 14 November 1911 for 30 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/71185

PEOPLE
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Franklin, Lady Jane
Franklin, John, Sir

SUBJECTS
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Ballad
Discovery of North West Passage
Tasmania
telescope
telescope



TECHNIQUES
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White earthenware moulded in three parts, with separately moulded telescope, and lead-glazed. Painted with brown, black, orange, grey and flesh-pink enamels, and gilt. The underside is concave and glazed. The back is moulded, with a vent hole 9cm 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:	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: 8

dimension: Depth
units: in
value: 3.125

dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 27.5

dimension: Height
units: in
value: 10.75

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 11.5

dimension: Width
units: in
value: 4.5



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
A Potted History: Henry Willett's Ceramic Chronicle of Britain
The Victorian Staffordshire Figure
Staffordshire Figures
Staffordshire Chimney Ornaments
Staffordshire Portrait Figures
Victorian Staffordshire Figures 1835-1875, Book One: portraits, naval & military, theatrical & literary characters
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