IDENTIFIERS
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id:	76124
accession number:	C.802-1928

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Friday 8 October 2021

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: White stoneware, press-moulded, with dark brown slip details and salt-glaze. The duck has no feet or legs and instead is supported on a circular base which is hollow underneath. The duck has a fan-shaped tail. Its body, wings and tail are integrally moulded with scale-like patterns and long feathers. Its raised neck and bill are bare. The eyes are painted in with dark-brown slip and there is a splash of slip on its right wing. The whole is a rather muddy white, and the neck and much of the body are slightly discoloured and are speckled with minute black spots.
object type: white stoneware duck with dark brown slip eyes and salt-glaze.
title:	animal figure

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Stewart Acton, a dealer in Brighton, from whom purchased for £25 on 22 November 1923 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge. Acton had sent the duck on approval to Ramsgate where Glaisher was staying.


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
collection:	J. W. L. Glaisher
creditline: Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/76124


SUBJECTS
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duck
duck



TECHNIQUES
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off-white press-moulded stoneware, with eyes painted in dark brown slip, and salt-glaze
press-moulding

CATEGORIES
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category: stoneware
category: white salt-glazed stoneware

DATING
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creation date:	1745 - 1755
creation date earliest:	1745
creation date latest:	1755
culture:	18th Century, Mid
culture:	George II

CREATORS
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maker: Unidentified Staffordshire factory

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 12.7



CITATIONS
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Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge
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