IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 76125 accession number: C.803-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 30 July 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: White stoneware with brown slip details and salt-glaze. The lovers are seated on a rounded three sided hollow rock base under an arbour formed of separately moulded vine leaves rising from the rock behind them. The lady (on the viewer's right) has her right arm around the gentleman's waist, and his left arm is around her shoulder with the hand resting on the left side of her head The gentleman is seated with his legs crossed. He has raised her skirt to reveal her right lower leg, and the lady places her hand on his as if to prevent further advances - or perhaps to encourage them? She wears a round cap, a jacket with elbow-length sleeves, and three ribbons across her stomacher, over a long full skirt. He wears a cravat and shirt, a waistcoat ,and a coat with eight buttons over knee-length breeches. Both figures have rather full cheeks, and their eyes are picked out in dark brown slip. title: figure group NOTES ----- type: history note value: acquired from a private collector by Mr Stoner [George], Stoner & Evans, London; purchased from him on 15 June 1910 for £55 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: J. W. L. Glaisher creditline: Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/76125 PEOPLE ------------------- lady gentleman SUBJECTS ------------------- arbour arbour TECHNIQUES ---------- off-white stoneware, moulded in parts, assembled, eyes painted in dark-brown slip, and salt-glazed moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- salt-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: stoneware category: white salt-glazed stoneware DATING ------ creation date: 1750 - 1755 creation date earliest: 1750 creation date latest: 1755 culture: 18th Century, Mid culture: George II CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified Staffordshire factory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 17.8 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Staffordshire Figures and Aspects of the English Landscape Part 2: Woodlands, Forests, Wildlife, and Gardens The Incomparable Art. 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