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Cat holding a Mouse
Production: Unidentified Staffordshire Pottery
Dark brown and white marbled clays (solid agateware), press-moulded and salt-glazed. The cat is seated with its head turned towards the viewer. It holds a white rat or very large mouse in its mouth.
History note: Harland Collection; Puttick & Simpson, 22 May 1925, Harland Sale, lot 180; bought for £5.5s. 0d.with C.786-1928 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 10.4 cm
Width: 5.9 cm
Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
Mid 18th Century
George II
Circa
1740
CE
-
1760
CE
Surface
composed of
salt-glaze
Base
Length 6.9 cm
Press-moulded : Solid dark brown and white agateware, press-moulded in two halves and joined, with an applied moulded white stoneware mouse or rat, and salt-glazed
Accession number: C.790-1928
Primary reference Number: 76059
Old object number: 4549
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2023) "Cat holding a Mouse" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/76059 Accessed: 2023-06-06 08:27:51
To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
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|title=Cat holding a Mouse
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University of Cambridge}}
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https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/api/v1/objects/object-76059
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Accession Number: C.3055-1928
Accession Number: C.94-1928
Accession Number: O.236-2008
Accession Number: MAR.O.37 & A-1912
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