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Lady wearing a Sack
Production: Unidentified Staffordshire Pottery
Dark brown and white clay , partly marbled (solid agateware), incised, painted with dark brown slip, and salt-glazed. The lady stands facing front. Her hair is drawn back from her forehead into a low chignon at the back, and she has dark brown slip eyes. She wears a patterned skirt, and a bodice with wide ruffled sleeves, paniers and a short sack back (a pet-en-lair), Its frilled neckline is extremely décoletté, and shows the dark brown nipples of her breasts. The stomacher has criss-cross lacing. Her hands rest on the front of the paniers. The back of her head, shoulders and the top of the sack are coloured brown with slip.
History note: Mr. R. Morrell of 45 Gold Street and 60 Marefair, Northampton; Captain Price; Cyril Andrade, London, from whom purchased for £45 on 16 October 1916 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity Colelge, Cambridge
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Depth: 4.8 cm
Height: 11.3 cm
Length: 6.3 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, Mid
George II
Circa
1750
CE
-
1760
CE
Decoration
composed of
slip
( brown)
Surface
composed of
salt-glaze
dark brown and white Stoneware
Press-moulding : Dark brown and white marbled clays, press-moulded in two halves with a separate head, painted with dark brown slip, and salt-glazed
Inscription present: octagonal white paper stick-on label with black line border
Accession number: C.783-1928
Primary reference Number: 76051
Old object number: 4673
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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