IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 74959 accession number: C.41-1930 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 14 February 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Cream earthenware, moulded in parts, assembled, and decorated with translucent bluish, and greyish-blue, pale green, pale yellow, pale brown, and black lead-glazes. The figure is supported on a low square base with straight sides, which is hollow underneath and has a central ventilation hole in the middle. The youthful shepherd stands on a rocky and grassy mound beside a tree stump. He has his left foot forward, as if he has just stepped onto one of the rocks, and leans forward slightly because of the weight of the sheep carried over his shoulders.Its feet are tied together by a rope, which he grasps in both hands. His head is turned three-quarters to his right. He wears a black tricorne hat, a blue waistcoat under a green coat, pale yellow breeches, and black shoes. The black glaze on his hat has run down over his left shoulder during firing. object type: earthenware figure of a shepherd carrying a sheep decorated with coloured lead-glazes title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: John Henry Taylor collection; 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 592. 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/74959 TECHNIQUES ---------- press-moulding CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware DATING ------ creation date: 1783 - 1795 creation date earliest: 1783 creation date latest: 1795 culture: 18th Century CREATORS -------- maker: Wood, Ralph, II DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 23.7 dimension: Width units: cm value: 8 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Collecting Staffordshire Pottery The Wood Family of Burslem English Earthenware Figures 1740-1840 The Henry H. Weldon Collection, English Pottery 1650-1800 --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_41_1930_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/mid_C_41_1930_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_41_1930_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/preview_C_41_1930_281_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_41_1930_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/mid_C_41_1930_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_41_1930_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/preview_C_41_1930_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels