IDENTIFIERS
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id:	74705
accession number:	C.37-1930

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Saturday 24 June 2023

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Cream earthenware, press-moulded, and decorated in clear blue-tinted, green, manganese-purple, and greyish-brown lead-glazes. The underside is hollow and unglazed. The figures stand on a high oblong mound of rocks and plants, with a wide tree stump in the middle at the back which supports the bull. The powerful  and angry bull is moving towards the viewer's left with its head down and tail raised over its back. The attacking dog is crouched at the front of the base close to the bull's left front leg and head. The mound is coloured in greyish-brown and green glazes. The bull is white with dappling in manganese-purple, and the dog is greyish-brown with paler patches on its back and sides.
object type: earthenware figure of a bull being attacked by a dog decorated with coloured lead-glazes
title:	animal figure

NOTES
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type: history note
value: John Henry Taylor (1849-1930); sold Sotheby's, 14 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 579


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
creditline: Purchased with the Glaisher fund

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/74705


SUBJECTS
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bull baiting
bull (animal)
dog
bull baiting
bull (animal)
dog



TECHNIQUES
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press-moulding

CATEGORIES
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category: lead-glazed earthenware
category: coloured glazed figures
category: pearlware

DATING
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creation date:	1783 - 1801
creation date earliest:	1783
creation date latest:	1801
culture:	18th Century, Late

CREATORS
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maker: Wood, Ralph, II
maker: Wood, Ralph, III

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Depth
units: cm
value: 9.8

dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 12.7

dimension: Length
units: cm
value: 17.2



CITATIONS
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Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge
English Earthenware Figures 1740-1840
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