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The Lovers
Unidentified Staffordshire factory
(Factory)
White salt-glazed stoneware group of a seated gentleman embracing a lady seated beside him
Greyish-white stoneware, press-moulded and salt-glazed. The underside is closed and has a small ventilation hole. The base is in the form of a three sided rock or mound with two circular holes pierced through the top behind the couple, who sit close together on its top. The man has his left arm around the woman's shoulders and she has her left arm around his. He has raised the woman's skirt to reveal her left knee and she places her left hand on his to restrain or encourage him. She wears a round cap, an open jacket over a stomacher, and a full skirt, and he has a shirt, jacket, breeches and buckled shoes (his right leg is missing).
History note: Cyril Andrade, London, from whom bought with a variant group (C.805-1928) on 28 June 1922 for £50 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, London
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 15.5 cm
Width: 11.5 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
1750
CE
-
1755
1755
CE
The two holes in the top of the back of the base were probably intended to take the lower ends of metal branches for candles.
Surface: composed of salt-glaze
Press-moulding : Off-white stoneware, press-moulded, and salt-glazed
Salt-glazing
Inscription present: Square white paper label with cut corners, and Prussian blue line border
Accession number: C.804-1928
Primary reference Number: 76126
Old object number: 3822
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 (2020) "Figure group"
Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/76126 Accessed: 2021-11-28 00:10:06
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Accession Number: C.805-1928
Accession Number: C.957-1928
Accession Number: C.779-1928
Accession Number: M.8-2014
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