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The Lost Piece
Potter: Wood, Ralph, II (Probably)
Earthenware figure of a woman decorated with coloured lead glazes, illustrating the Parable of the Lost Piece
Cream earthenware, press-moulded, and decorated with coloured lead-glazes; pale bluish-green, green, yellow, and three shades of brown. The woman stands on a mound base with rocks on its top. She has her right foot raised on one of the rocks. Her head is turned slightly to her left and she holds out her left arm, to display the lost coin in her hand. In her right hand she holds the handle of a broom, the head of which rests on the mound beside her right foot. Her hair is dressed in an elaborate style with curls at the front, and three strands hanging down over her shoulders. She wears a low-necked, loosely-fitting brown dress, over a white skirt with a yellow bow at the front, and has sandals on her feet.
History note: 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 596
Purchased with the Glaisher Fund
Height: 21 cm
9.2
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Method of acquisition: Bought (1930-11-14) by Sotheby's
18th Century, Late
Circa
1783
-
Circa
1795
The figure illustrates the Parable of the Lost Piece in the Gospel of St Luke, chapter 15 verses 8-10.
Decoration
composed of
lead-glaze
( clear with bluish tint, and coloured green, yellow, shades of brown,)
metallic oxides
( to colour glazes)
Base
Depth 7 cm
Width 6.8 cm
cream Earthenware
Press-moulding
: Cream earthenware, press-moulded in parts, assembled, and decorated with lead glazes coloured faintly blue, green, yellow, and three shades of brown
Lead-glazing
Accession number: C.42-1930
Primary reference Number: 75031
Glaisher Addition number: GL.Add.11-1930
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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