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The Lovers
Factory: Unidentified Staffordshire factory
White salt-glazed stoneware group of a man and woman seated on a mound
Off-white stoneware, press-moulded and salt-glazed. The underside is closed. The three-sided base is in the form of a rock or mound with sloping sides and has a circular hole on its top behind the couple, who sit close together embracing. He has his left arm around her shoulder and she has her right arm around his. His right hand is placed on her knee and her left hand rests on his wrist. She wears a round cap, a low-necked open jacket with a sack back over a stomacher, and a full skirt. Her lover wears a shirt, a jacket and breeches. His right leg is missing below the knee.
History note: Cyril Andrade, London, from whom bought with a variant figure for £50 on 28 June 1922 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 10.2 cm
Width: 10.2 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, Mid
George II
Circa
1750
CE
-
1755
CE
The hole in the top of the base was probably intended to take the lower end of a candle branch. The model is close to C.804-1928 but the woman's right lower leg and knee are not visible, and it is smaller in scale.
Surface composed of salt-glaze
white Stoneware
Inscription present: rectangular white paper stick on label with Prussian blue line border on three sides
Accession number: C.805-1928
Primary reference Number: 76127
Old object number: 3823
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "The Lovers" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/76127 Accessed: 2024-11-09 00:27:57
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