IDENTIFIERS
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id:	75106
accession number:	C.44-1930

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Tuesday 21 February 2023

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: 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.
object type: earthenware figure of a Shepherdess decorated with coloured lead-glazes
title:	figure

NOTES
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type: history note
value: 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


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
creditline: Purchased with the Glaisher Fund

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/75106


SUBJECTS
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shepherdess
lamb
shepherdess
lamb



TECHNIQUES
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cream earthenware, press-moulded in parts, assembled and decorated with translucent blue-tinted, green, yellow, greenish-brown, manganese-brown lead-glazes
press-moulding

CATEGORIES
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category: lead-glazed earthenware
category: coloured glazed figures

DATING
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creation date:	1782 - 1800
creation date earliest:	1782
creation date latest:	1800
culture:	18th Century, Late

CREATORS
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maker: Wood, Ralph, II
maker: Wood, Ralph, III

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 22.1

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 9.2



CITATIONS
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Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge
English Earthenware Figures 1740-1840
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