IDENTIFIERS
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id:	71189
accession number:	C.1026-1928

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

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: 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
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type: history note
value: Harrods’ Stores, antique department, London; bought on 20 May 1909 for 25 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/71189

PEOPLE
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Queen Victoria
Prince Albert
Bonaparte, Louis-Napoléon
Napoleon III (1852-70)

SUBJECTS
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Crimean War



TECHNIQUES
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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
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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:	1855 - 1857
creation date earliest:	1855
creation date latest:	1857
culture:	19th Century, Mid#
culture:	Victorian

CREATORS
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maker: Unidentified factory

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