IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 71310 accession number: C.10-X DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 21 July 2025 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Cream earthenware, lead-glazed, and painted in blue, shades of yellowish-green, yellow, purple, brown, grey, and black enamels. On the reverse there is an unglazed area around the outer edge. Circular, with a flat centre and a raised edge, sloping outwards on the outside. The flat area is painted with a rural scene. A young a woman wearing early 19th century dress is depicted walking along a path leading to a distant church and village. She is evidently coming home from market, as she is carrying a basket with a lamb in it. To the right of her there is an irregular plank fence and two trees, and to her left, two smaller trees on a bank. At top centre there is a suspension holeThe inside edge of the frame is decorated in brown with a bead and reel border, and the exterior is dark brown overall. On the back, painted in red enamel is the title, 'Country Girl, returning/from Market,/1830". object type: Circular lead-glazed earthenware plaque painted in polychrome enamels with a rural scene showing a girl walking from market towards a village church title: plaque LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Donor and date of acquisition unknown STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/71310 TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware DATING ------ creation date: 1830 - 1830 creation date earliest: 1830 creation date latest: 1830 culture: 19th Century, second quarter culture: George IV culture: William IV CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Diameter units: cm value: 15.6 dimension: Height units: cm value: 1.5 IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa12/C_10_X_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa12/mid_C_10_X_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa12/C_10_X_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa12/preview_C_10_X_281_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa12/C_10_X_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa12/mid_C_10_X_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa12/C_10_X_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa12/preview_C_10_X_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels