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The Spinario
Factory: Unidentified Staffordshire factory (Probably)
White salt-glazed stoneware
White salt-glazed stoneware, the figure possibly slip-cast, the base press-moulded, and having a small round ventilation hole under the figure. The base is rectangular with incurved sides. Applied to its top is a shallow oval area of ground with on its left end a low stone or tree stump on which the Spinario is seated. He has shoulder-length hair curling back from his forehead, and is nude apart from a flower which conceals his genitals. He has his right leg outstretched and his left raised and bent at the knee so that the foot rests on his right thigh. He holds the foot with his left hand and pulls the thorn from the heel with his right.
History note: Mr A.E. Clarke, Cambridge; Cyril Andrade, Duke Street, St James's, London, from whom purchased in 1919 for £30 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 13.5 cm
Width: 14 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
Third quarter of 18th century
George II
Circa
1755
CE
-
1760
CE
This figure was probably inspired by the bronze Spinario in the Palazzo dei Conservatori in Rome, or a later copy, although it sits on a lower stump and therefore has its right leg more outstretched than the original.
Surface
composed of
salt-glaze
Base
Figure
Accession number: C.808-1928
Primary reference Number: 76131
Old object number: 4065
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 (2023) "The Spinario" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/76131 Accessed: 2023-06-09 07:08:34
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University of Cambridge}}
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Accession Number: M.15-1997
Accession Number: 832/7.f.32
Accession Number: 832/7.f.15
Accession Number: 832/7.f.19
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