IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 74605 accession number: C.34-1930 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Wednesday 11 January 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: off-white earthenware, press-moulded, and decorated with clear blue-tinted, blue, green, a little yellow, and dark brown lead-glazes. The boy stands in front of a tree stump on a small circular mound base, which is hollow and unglazed underneath. His skin is bluish-white and his eyes are picked out in dark brown. He wears a pale green cap with a long tail at the back, a bluish-white shirt with a frilled collar, a blue coat, a small blue apron, bluish-white trunks, and dark brown boots. He holds up his apron which is full of shells. object type: earthenware figure decorated with coloured lead-glazes title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: John Henry Taylor (1849-1930); sold Sotheby's, 14th November 1930, Catalogue of the Valuable Collections of English Pottery & Porcelain, Glass, Objects of Vertu and Furniture, the Property of the late John Henry Taylor, Esq., Newstead, Birstall, Leicestershire, lot 585. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Purchased with the Glaisher Fund STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/74605 TECHNIQUES ---------- press-moulding CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware category: pearlware category: coloured glazed figures DATING ------ creation date: 1780 - 1795 creation date earliest: 1780 creation date latest: 1795 culture: 18th Century, Late culture: George III CREATORS -------- maker: Wood, Ralph, II maker: Unidentified Staffordshire factory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 13.1 dimension: Width units: cm value: 5 CITATIONS -------- Earle Collection of early Staffordshire pottery Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge English Earthenware Figures 1740-1840 --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_34_1930_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/mid_C_34_1930_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_34_1930_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/preview_C_34_1930_281_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_34_1930_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/mid_C_34_1930_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_34_1930_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/preview_C_34_1930_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels