IDENTIFIERS
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id:	76129
accession number:	C.807A-1928

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Tuesday 1 December 2020

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: off-white stoneware, moulded, with applied hand-modelled flowers, and salt-glaze. The long-tailed bird is perching on a tall tree stump rising from a mound base with wavy edges. The front of the stump is decorated with one large and two small rosette-like flowerheads on short stalks. The bird is facing towards the front with its feet on either side of the stump. Its head is turned sharply to the viewer's right, and it holds a large round berry in its beak. The underside of the base is concave and has a central ventilation hole.
title:	animal figure

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Cyril Andrade, London, from whom purchased with its pair on July 30, 1924 for £80 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge


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/76129


SUBJECTS
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bird
bird



TECHNIQUES
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off-white stoneware, moulded in parts, with hand-modelled flowers, assembled, and salt-glazed
moulding
TECHNIQUES
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salt-glazing

CATEGORIES
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category: stoneware
category: white salt-glazed stoneware

DATING
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creation date:	1755 - 1760
creation date earliest:	1755
creation date latest:	1760
culture:	18th Century, Mid
culture:	George II

CREATORS
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maker: Unidentified Staffordshire factory

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Depth
units: cm
value: 11

dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 21.9



CITATIONS
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Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge
White Salt-glazed Stoneware of the British Isles
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