IDENTIFIERS
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id:	73373
accession number:	C.2333-1928

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Tuesday 26 August 2025

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Earthenware, press-moulded, tin-glazed on the visible surfaces, and painted in blue, yellow, orange, brown, and manganese-purple. The Virgin stands holding the Christ Child in her left arm. She wears a crown over a veil which extends to the ground at the back over her full-length gown. Most of the group is left white with the features painted naturalistically, and the outlines of the costume lightly delineated in the various colours. The eight-sided base is unglazed and concave underneath with a circular ventilation hold in the middle.
title:	figure

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Paris, Madame …… -Meyer at her shop in the rue St Honoré, where purchased for 95 francs on 12 September 1913 by Dr J.W.L. 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/73373


SUBJECTS
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Virgin Mary
Christ Child
Virgin Mary
Christ Child



TECHNIQUES
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earthenware, moulded, tin-glazed, and painted in blue, yellow, orange, brown, and manganese-purple high-temperature colours; the base is concave and unglazed, and has a large circular ventilation hole in the centre.
press-moulding
TECHNIQUES
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tin-glazing

CATEGORIES
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category: tin-glazed earthenware
category: French faïence

DATING
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creation date:	1770 - 1799
creation date earliest:	1770
creation date latest:	1799
culture:	18th Century, Late

CREATORS
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maker: Unidentified Nevers factory

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Depth
units: cm
value: 10.2

dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 31

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 12



EXHIBITIONS HISTORY
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title:	Plagiarism Personified? European Pottery and Porcelain Figures
CITATIONS
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Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge
Plagiarism Personified? European Pottery and Porcelain Figures
Sculptures en faïence de Nevers du XVIIe au XIXe siècle
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