1592999647000 1312637261000 Standard Record object-74452 1752602727130 1711450397000 1752602690710 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-74452 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/74452 0aa26c2c-397d-3d25-8d6d-34b604990b17 8 Sir Charles Hercules Read (1857-1929), was a British archaeologist, who joined the British Museum as a curator in 1880 and in 1896 succeeded Sir A.W. Franks as Keeper of the Department of British and Mediaeval Antiquities and Ethnography reference agent-207189 adlib-agent-207189 c2dd1a00-6b98-353d-abad-49246a1cd7b1 Read, Hercules, Sir (1857-1929) reference term-37627 adlib-term-37627 254febfe-0021-3e45-89a7-d57ba40044c7 hard-paste porcelain reference term-113184 adlib-term-113184 25fc548d-d02f-39a6-a34f-d609393a0043 J. W. L. Glaisher blue, bluish-green, pale yellow, pink, red, pale brown, dark brown, greyish-brown, and black reference term-32638 adlib-term-32638 97b8d1a5-7b8f-3a2a-a275-7d001aeaae2b enamel Decoration blue, bluish-green, pale yellow, pink, red, pale brown, dark brown, greyish-brown, and black enamels reference term-106226 adlib-term-106226 194567f2-2bcd-3446-ae31-652386611815 painting reference term-28681 adlib-term-28681 c1f659e2-1209-31cf-8ff4-154e11452559 gilding Height cm 16.5 Over Girl's Head Width cm 17.8 Base Applied Arts Hard-paste porcelain painted in polychrome enamels and gilt. A kneeling youth comforts a seated shepherdess who is weeping over a dead sheep. Hard-paste porcelain press-moulded, and painted overglaze in blue, bluish-green, pale yellow, pink, red, pale brown, dark brown, greyish-brown, and black enamels, and lightly gilt. The underside is open and glazed, On the viewer's left there is a rectangular prop, and part of another beside it. The base is approximately oval with a wavy edge. There are brown rocks round the edge, and in the middle of the back, a heap of rocks forming a seat. The top is painted with bluish-green grass. The shepherdess sits on the rock seat holding her handkerchief to her eyes with her left hand and resting hr right on the shoulders of a youth who kneels beside her. He has his left hand round her waist and holds his right to his chest. His bag and hulot lie on the grass in front of him. The dead sheep lies across the right end of the base . The bare-footed girl has pale brown hair, dressed in a double chignon at the back of her head. She wears a full-sleeved chemise, a white bodice with a red edge, gold seams, and two blue double bows on the shoulders, neckline and waist. The boy has a white shirt and neckcloth, a pink jacket with gold edging, pale yellow breeches and black shoes. His bag is brown with two red bows and there is another at the top of his houlot. Beside the sheep's head there are two red berries and four leaves. C.3178-1928 1 accession number C.3178-1928 74452 priref 74452 Glaisher MS Catalogue, vol. 37 old object number 5116 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/74452 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/74452 on underside of base incised underglaze M•S• No 87 model number on underside of base below the larger model number incised underglaze M.41 mark a wheel on underside of base to right of M.41 painted underglaze in blue factory mark reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest reference agent-152564 adlib-agent-152564 c20df94d-f096-3e0b-a9b5-6ddd12161fb7 Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr 1928 1928 1928-12-07 bequeathed the Glaisher ceramic collection was entered in the accession register as one item with the date of Dr Glaisher’s death 1775 1775 CE 1775 circa 1775 1778 1 1778 CE 1778 1778 factory reference agent-176305 adlib-agent-176305 6a316c28-d3f6-3fae-b81a-65d81336f560 Höchst Porcelain Manufactory modeller reference agent-90354 adlib-agent-90354 527c5293-e949-389a-bd58-96da06b6e7d9 Melchior, Johann Peter reference term-106779 adlib-term-106779 f0706fcd-d94c-3987-bcb5-f7f794332b6a 18th Century, Late reference term-110407 adlib-term-110407 08d0f686-1347-3bb9-a466-b33699f5f2c6 literal Germany Germany country Höchst-am-Main clear reference term-32652 adlib-term-32652 82d8ae3b-f165-395c-ba93-dfa1c282b7be glaze reference term-37627 adlib-term-37627 254febfe-0021-3e45-89a7-d57ba40044c7 hard-paste porcelain reference media-42611 adlib-media-42611 ce5c1aa4-1f37-37d7-85cb-5bf15afd2a50 jpeg aa/aa3/C_3178_1928_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 550 width pixels 760 1742583094871 1 image jpeg aa/aa3/mid_C_3178_1928_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 362 width pixels 500 1742583094871 1 image jpeg aa/aa3/C_3178_1928_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 550 width pixels 760 1742583094871 1 image jpeg aa/aa3/preview_C_3178_1928_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 181 width pixels 250 1742583094871 1 image 0 media image reference media-42612 adlib-media-42612 7625a5a8-c4d5-34b5-ad92-f703f8962ac3 jpeg aa/aa3/C_3178_1928_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 550 width pixels 760 1742583158021 1 image jpeg aa/aa3/mid_C_3178_1928_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 362 width pixels 500 1742583158021 1 image jpeg aa/aa3/C_3178_1928_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 550 width pixels 760 1742583158021 1 image jpeg aa/aa3/preview_C_3178_1928_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 181 width pixels 250 1742583158021 1 image 1 media image reference media-42613 adlib-media-42613 9d039292-ed91-3aa5-85da-26c0a90c1075 jpeg aa/aa3/C_3178_1928_283_29.jpg 1 height pixels 550 width pixels 760 1742583123470 1 image jpeg aa/aa3/mid_C_3178_1928_283_29.jpg 1 height pixels 362 width pixels 500 1742583123470 1 image jpeg aa/aa3/C_3178_1928_283_29.jpg 1 height pixels 550 width pixels 760 1742583123470 1 image jpeg aa/aa3/preview_C_3178_1928_283_29.jpg 1 height pixels 181 width pixels 250 1742583123470 1 image 2 media image reference term-110220 adlib-term-110220 e22d3544-a393-3f19-9be4-dc2632ca9942 figure group history note Sir Hercules Read (1857-1929); sold Sotheby's, 6 November 1928, Catalogue of the Varied and Extensive Collection of Works of Art, The Property of Sir Hercules Read, 6, Palace Gardens Terrace, W.8, second day, lot 179; purchased by Hunt for £26 on behalf of Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, Trinity College, Cambridge. reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum Publ. p. 17, second day, lot 179. 117 reference publication-5992 adlib-publication-5992 8a149648-22a4-3abd-a46f-b09a2d1b9493 Catalogue of the Varied and Extensive Collection of Works of Art, The Property of Sir Hercules Read, 6, Palace Gardens Terrace, W.8 Publ. Vol. l, p. 408, no. 3178, vol. II, pl. 257A 408 reference publication-1031 adlib-publication-1031 a5cc6cb3-2b6f-390a-af51-7e9d123e55ed Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Publ. p. 178, pl. 32, black and white illustration 178 reference publication-200000972 adlib-publication-200000972 7f5a96e7-f977-3a54-a682-7562e7be5929 James Whitbread Lee Glaisher, ScD, FRS (1848-1928), A Cambridge Mathematician and Collector Cf. p. 76, pl. 154, an example h. 15.3 cm, dated c. 1775, in the Museum der Stadt Ratingen; text p. 77. This example is much more attractively painted; the boy wears white trousers with blue check and a white jacket with pink stripes; the girl is mainly white with a brightly-coloured floral skirt 76 reference publication-6197 adlib-publication-6197 6a90e99d-502a-3409-bda0-51c1b93bc0aa Johann Peter Melchior 1747-1825, Bildhauer und Modellmeister im Höchst, Frankenthal und Nymphenburg Cf. p. 105, no. 193, a biscuit model in the Kunstgewerbemuseum, Koln (inv. Nr. E 21376) 105 reference publication-2777 adlib-publication-2777 6e5539b6-4129-3e7c-a647-a86e9412660b Figürliches Porzellan reference term-1866 adlib-term-1866 f8c8b1e5-3333-3cd9-a0e3-241d5e36e599 grief animal reference term-106464 adlib-term-106464 9b682ada-9fbd-3810-953f-868aba7cfac1 sheep literal sheep sheep

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