IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 71620 accession number: C.1223-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 18 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: A boy sits on a pedestal, playing a concertina. The octagonal base is moulded to form three shallow steps at the top surrounding a short, ridged pedestal. The boy is hand-modelled, with face, fingers and toes finely detailed. He wears a wide-brim hat and loin-cloth. The whole is covered in cream slip and a thin covering of dark blue glaze, so that the cream colour shows through on the face and on the sharp edges of the pedestal and concertina. A square cut has been made into the back of the pedestal and a hole drilled through into the hollow base. The underside is unglazed, except for the rim. object type: Stoneware figure covered with dark blue salt-glaze. title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Low, Foulsham & Coles. Bought on 9 February 1925 for £1.10/- (one pound ten 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/71620 PEOPLE ------------------- Doulton, Henry Lambeth School of Art musician boy TECHNIQUES ---------- salt-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: stoneware category: salt-glazed stoneware category: Art Pottery category: Doulton Lambeth ware DATING ------ creation date: 1880 - 1890 creation date earliest: 1880 creation date latest: 1890 culture: 19th Century, Late# culture: Victorian CREATORS -------- maker: Doulton & Co. maker: Tinworth, George maker: Atkins, Elizabeth DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Depth units: cm value: 6.4 dimension: Depth units: in value: 2.5 dimension: Height units: cm value: 12.1 dimension: Height units: in value: 4.875 dimension: Width units: cm value: 6.5 dimension: Width units: in value: 16.7 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge The A B C of English Salt-Glaze Stoneware A Tinworth Diary: Doulton's Ceramic Sculptor Catalogue of an exhibition of Doulton stoneware and terracotta, 1870-1925, part 1. 28th September to 9th October, 1971 at 141 Kensington Church Street, London, W.8. The Doulton Lambeth Wares --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_1223_1928_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/mid_C_1223_1928_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_1223_1928_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/preview_C_1223_1928_281_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_1223_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/mid_C_1223_1928_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_1223_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/preview_C_1223_1928_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_1223_1928_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/mid_C_1223_1928_283_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_1223_1928_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/preview_C_1223_1928_283_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels