Current Location: Gallery 27 (Glaisher)
Titles
Shakespeare
Maker(s)
Pottery:
Wood, Enoch
Pottery:
Wood & Caldwell
Designer:
Kent, William
(After)
Sculptor:
Scheemakers, Peter
(After)
Cast maker:
Vanina, Peter
Entities
Categories
Description
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.
Notes
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
Legal notes
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Measurements and weight
Height: 46.4 cm
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed
(1928-12-07)
by
Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
Dating
18th Century, Late-19th Century, Early
George III
Circa
1790
CE
-
1820
CE
Note
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).
School or Style
Rococo
People, subjects and objects depicted
Components of the work
Decoration
composed of
enamel
( yellow, red, maroon, pale pinkish-brown, and black)
Wgike
Depth 13.2 cm
Base
Width 27.3 cm
Materials used in production
slightly blue tinted
Lead-glaze
Earthenware
Techniques used in production
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
Inscription or legends present
- Text: PV
- Location: On back
- Method of creation: Moulded integrally
- Type: Mark
- Location: On underside of base
- Type: Label
References and bibliographic entries
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Plagiarism Personified? European Pottery and Porcelain Figures
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Shakespeare and the Eighteenth Century
page(s): 14
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The Wood Family of Burslem
page(s): 59, 92
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Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Ceramics, Catalogue of English Porcelain, Earthenware, Enamels and Glass collected by Charles Schreiber Esq., M.P., and the Lady Charlotte Elizabeth Schreiber, and presented to the Museum in 1884, Volume I, Porcelain
page(s): 59
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The Man at Hyde Park Corner, Sculpture by John Cheere 1709-1787
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European Ceramics and Glass, 12 June 2001
Related exhibitions
Identification numbers
Accession number: C.43-1928
Primary reference Number: 75067
Old object number: 2492
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Saturday 6 August 2011
Updated: Tuesday 30 April 2024
Last processed: Wednesday 14 May 2025
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
