IDENTIFIERS
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id:	71194
accession number:	C.1031-1928

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 to round base is waisted to the front, and lettered MOODY' in relief gilt capitals at the top; a gilt line runs across, close to the bottom. Dwight Lyman Moody stands against a low wall with his left hand on his hip and his right resting on a cloth atop a short pillar. The figure is mainly white, with features picked out in enamels and gilt. Moody wears a long coat, its lapels and cuffs lined in gilt, and a double-breasted waistcoat with buttons and pockets highlighted in gilt. He has black hair, a moustache and a full beard, which parts into two on his chest, and his eyebrows are finely painted. His shoes are black. The pillar cloth is decorated with touches of gilt. The underside is concave and glazed. The upper back is moulded, with a vent hole 14.25 cm from the bottom; the lower back is partly moulded and combed.
object type: White earthenware figure moulded in three parts, with separately moulded right leg, and pearlware glazed. Painted with black, red and flesh-pink enamels, and gilt.
title:	figure

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Mrs A Bennett, 1 Tavistock Place, Plymouth (who bought the figure ‘in an adjoining village’). Bought on 20 June 1903 for four shillings and sixpence by Dr Glaisher, FRS, 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/71194

PEOPLE
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Sankey, Ira D
Moody, Dwight Lyman




TECHNIQUES
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White earthenware moulded in three parts, with separately moulded right leg, and covered with blue-tinted lead-glaze. . Painted with black, red and flesh-pink enamels, and gilt. The underside is concave and glazed. The upper back is moulded, with a vent hole 14.25 cm from the bottom; the lower back is partly moulded and combed.
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:	1873 - 1875
creation date earliest:	1873
creation date latest:	1875
culture:	19th Century, Mid#
culture:	Victoria I

CREATORS
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maker: Unidentified factory

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Depth
units: cm
value: 10.5

dimension: Depth
units: in
value: 4.125

dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 33.5

dimension: Height
units: in
value: 13.25

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 12.3

dimension: Width
units: in
value: 4.875



CITATIONS
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Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge
Victorian Staffordshire Figures 1835-1875, Book One: portraits, naval & military, theatrical & literary characters
Staffordshire Portrait Figures and Allied Subjects of the Victorian Era
Staffordshire Figures
Staffordshire Portrait Figures
Preacher Ceramics - Figures and Plaques
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