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Shakespeare
Pottery:
Wood, Enoch
Pottery:
Wood & Caldwell
Designer:
Kent, William
(After)
Sculptor:
Scheemakers, Peter
(After)
Cast maker:
Vanina, Peter
Lead-glazed earthenware painted in enamels
White earthenware, moulded, with slightly blue-tinted lead-glaze,painted in yellow, red, maroon, pale pinkish-brown, and black enamels.
History note: W. H. Milligan Esq., 50 Pall Mall; sold by direction of the Executors at Foster's auction of 7 June 1906; bought by Palmer & Fisher, Palmer Street, Westminster, from whom purchased (with Milton) for £25 on 18 June 1906 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 46.4 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, Late-19th Century, Early#
George III
Circa
1790
CE
-
1820
CE
After the monument in Westminster Abbey, designed by William Kent (1684-1748), and executed by Peter Scheemakers (1691-1761) in 1740. Reduced-scale plaster casts were produced by Scheemakers from his terracotta model, now lost, and by other London sculptors, notably John Cheere. The initials 'PV' moulded into the back of the pedestal of this and some other figures,for example, in the Schreiber Collection at the Victoria & Albert Museum (Schrebier Catalogue II, 311), may indicate that its moulds were produced from a plaster supplied by Peter Vanina, working in London, c. 1761-70. The majority of ceramic copies, such as those in Derby porcelain, are on a smaller scale, but there is a salt-glazed stoneware model of comparable size in the Schreiber Collection in the Victoria & Albert Museum (Schreiber Catalogue, II, 95).
Decoration
composed of
enamel
( yellow, red, maroon, pale pinkish-brown, and black)
Wgike
Depth 13.2 cm
Base
Width 27.3 cm
slightly blue tinted
Lead-glaze
Earthenware
Moulding
: White earthenware, moulded in parts, lassembled, covered with slightly blue-tinted lead-glaze, and painted in yellow, red, maroon, pale pinkish-brown, and black enamels enamels
Lead-glazing
Accession number: C.43-1928
Primary reference Number: 75067
Old object number: 2492
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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