IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 71189 accession number: C.1026-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 30 April 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Napoleon and Albert stand side by side, Albert' s right hand clasped in Napoleon' s left, and Napoleon's left hand resting on Albert's right shoulder. Between them is a low wall with a pile of shot at its base; on each side is a low pillar. Behind their heads are the crossed flags of France and Britain, the latter partially coloured in pink.The rectangular base has a chamfered edge to the front, on which 'Napoleon & Prince Albert' is painted in gilt script. The figure group is mainly white, with coloured flags and features picked out in enamels and gilt. Both figures wear military uniform and bicorne hats, which are decorated with touches of gilt; Albert carries a sword and his hat is plumed. Both figures have black shoes and wear finely painted moustaches and whiskers; Napoleon has a small beard. The underside is concave and glazed. The back is flat with rough marks in the clay and a vent hole 5cm from the bottom. object type: White earthenware figure group moulded in three parts, with Albert's left arm and right forearm separately moulded, and pearlware glazed. Painted with black, blue, red, pink and flesh-pink enamels, and gilt. title: figure group NOTES ----- type: history note value: Harrods’ Stores, antique department, London; bought on 20 May 1909 for 25 shillings 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/71189 PEOPLE ------------------- Queen Victoria Prince Albert Bonaparte, Louis-Napoléon Napoleon III (1852-70) SUBJECTS ------------------- Crimean War TECHNIQUES ---------- White earthenware moulded in three parts with Albert’s left arm and right forearm separately moulded, and pearlware glazed. Painted with black, blue, red, pink and flesh-pink enamels, and gilt. The underside is concave and glazed. The back is flat with rough marks in the clay and a vent hole 5cm from the bottom. press moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- painting TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing TECHNIQUES ---------- gilding CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware DATING ------ creation date: 1855 - 1857 creation date earliest: 1855 creation date latest: 1857 culture: 19th Century, Mid culture: Victorian CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified factory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Depth units: cm value: 7.5 dimension: Depth units: in value: 3 dimension: Height units: cm value: 36 dimension: Height units: in value: 14.25 dimension: Width units: cm value: 19 dimension: Width units: cm value: 7.5 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_1026_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_1026_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_1026_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_1026_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_1026_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_1026_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_1026_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_1026_1928_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels