IDENTIFIERS
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id:	73410
accession number:	C.2371-1928

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Tuesday 8 July 2025

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Earthenware, moulded, tin-glazed, and painted in blue, shades of green, yellow, flesh pink, pale red, red, brown, and black enamels. The figures stand in front of a tree stump on a high stony and mossy mound, rising from a rectangular base with a yellow edge, which is hollow underneath. The older boy stands with his feet well apart, and holds a bird's nest in both hands at chest level. He looks back over his right shoulder towards a smaller boy who reaches up to his shoulder in an attempt to reach the bird's nest. The older boy has a black hat over his brown hair. He wears a white shirt, a pale red waistcoat, a brown coat, blue breeches, white stockings and black shoes with buckles. The younger boy has pale greyish-brown hair, and wears a white shirt, a pale green waistcoat, and red breeches. His legs and feet are bare.  Both boys have rosy cheeks, red lips, and black eyebrows and irises. The bird's nest is brown and contains yellow chicks.
object type: Tin-glazed earthenware painted in polychrome enamels. A boy holding a bird's nest which a smaller boy is trying to reach.
title:	figure group

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Mr Gouy, Rouen, from whom purchased for 45 francs on 11 January 1905, 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/73410


SUBJECTS
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boy
bird's nest
boy
bird's nest



TECHNIQUES
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buff earthenware, moulded in parts, assembled, tin-glazed overall except for the underside of the edge of the base, and painted in blue, shades of green, yellow,flesh pink,  pale red, red, brown, and black enamels
moulding

CATEGORIES
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category: tin-glazed earthenware
category: French faïence

DATING
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creation date:	1760 - 1775
creation date earliest:	1760
creation date latest:	1775
culture:	Beyerlé-Custine period
culture:	18th Century, third quarter

CREATORS
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maker: Niderviller factory

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Depth
units: cm
value: 10.2

dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 20.5

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 12.7



CITATIONS
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Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge
Faïences françaises XVIe-XVIIIe siècles
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