IDENTIFIERS
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id:	71187
accession number:	C.1024-1928

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

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Eugenie sits on a high backed chair and Napoleon stands to her left, with his right hand on hip and his left  resting on a draped pillar. The plain oval base is inscribed ‘Eugenie & Napoleon’ in gilt script. The figures are mainly white, with features picked out in enamels and gilt. Eugenie’s gown has a three-tier, flounced, crinoline skirt and bertha bodice, decorated with small moulded flowers and gilt touches; she carries a handkerchief and a wrap, the latter moulded and touched in black to suggest ermine. Napoleon wears a moustache and beard; he is dressed in military uniform with tall black boots, sash, belt, epaulets, medals and a sword. The underside is concave and glazed. Napoleon’s back is moulded, otherwise the group is flat-backed, with rough markings in the clay and a round vent hole 5.75cm from the bottom.
object type: White earthenware, moulded in three parts and pearlware glazed; painted with black, red and flesh-pink enamels, and gilt.
title:	figure group

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Messrs Mortlock’s, corner of Oxford St. and Orchard St. W., London (Mr Mortlock purchased it from Hertford ). Bought on 15 March 1910 for one pound eleven shillings and sixpence (£1. 11/6), by Dr Glaisher, Trinity College.


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/71187

PEOPLE
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Bonaparte, Louis-Napoléon
Napoleon III (1852-70)
Eugenie, Empress
Montijo, Eugenie d'

SUBJECTS
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France
betrothal



TECHNIQUES
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White earthenware, moulded in three parts and pearlware glazed; painted with black, red and flesh-pink enamels, and gilt. The underside is concave and glazed. Napoleon’s back is moulded, otherwise the group is flat-backed, with rough markings in the clay and a round vent hole 5.75cm 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:	1853 - 1853
creation date earliest:	1853
creation date latest:	1853
culture:	19th Century, Mid#
culture:	Victorian

CREATORS
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maker: Unidentified factory

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Depth
units: cm
value: 6.5

dimension: Depth
units: in
value: 2.625

dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 23.5

dimension: Height
units: in
value: 9.25

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 14.8

dimension: Width
units: in
value: 5.875



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 Figures
Sampson Smith, manufacturer of all kinds if figures in great variety: a celebration
Staffordshire Portrait Figures
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