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Shepherdess
Potter:
Wood, Ralph, II
(Probably)
Potter:
Wood, Ralph, III
(Possibly)
Earthenware figure of a Shepherdess decorated with coloured lead-glazes
Cream earthenware, press-moulded in parts, assembled, and decorated with translucent blue-tinted , green, yellow, greenish-brown, and manganese-brown lead-glazes. The underside is open and the figure is hollow. On the inside of the base behind the lamb there is a ventilation hole. The shepherdess stands on a roughly circular base with Rococo style scrolled and frilled sides and grassy top. She faces to the front, holding a rose to her breast with her left hand and holding out her right hand, originally holding a metal crook, now missing. She has manganese-brown hair and eyes, and wears a bluish-white shallow-brimmed hat perched on the left side of her head, a yellow stomacher, a greenish-brown bodice and skirt with a green over-skirt looped up over it, a bluish-white petticoat, and brown shoes. A large lamb reclines on the ground on the viewer's left of the base. One of a pair with a Shepherd, C.43-1930.
History note: 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 601
Purchased with the Glaisher Fund
Height: 22.1 cm
Width: 9.2 cm
Method of acquisition: Bought (1930-11-14) by Sotheby's
18th Century, Late
Circa
1782
CE
-
Circa
1800
CE
Probably made by Ralph Wood II, or possibly his son, Ralph Wood III. Some figures of this type may have been made by Ralph II's brother John Wood (d. 1797) at his factory at Brownhills.
Decoration
composed of
lead-glaze
( translucent blue-tinted, green, yellow, greenish-brown, manganese-brown)
Base
Width 8 cm
cream Earthenware
Press-moulding : Cream earthenware, press-moulded in parts, assembled and decorated with translucent blue-tinted, green, yellow, greenish-brown, manganese-brown lead-glazes
Accession number: C.44-1930
Primary reference Number: 75106
Glaisher Addition number: Gl.Add.3-1930
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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