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Wading Bird
Factory: Unidentified Staffordshire factory
White stoneware, painted with cobalt-blue and salt-glazed
White salt-glazed stoneware painted with a little dark cobalt-blue. The wading bird (probably a crane) stands facing to the right in front of a tall tree stump on a ten-sided mound base. Its eyes and claws and the edge of the base are coloured blue. The base is decorated with applied floral sprays, and there is a stem on each side of the tree trunk. The figure originally had a second bird, now missing, standing on the other side of the trunk
History note: Purchased in London in 1905 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 30.2 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, third quarter#
George II
Circa
1750
CE
-
1760
CE
The crane was based on a Chinese blanc-de-chine taper or brush holder. Originally this model had another bird on the other side of the stump. A complete example was bequeathed to the British Museum by Wallace Elliot in 1938. For comparable Chinese figures, see Fitzwilliam Museum C.36A & B-1962.
Surface
composed of
salt-glaze
Decoration
composed of
cobalt-blue
Press-moulding
: White stoneware, press-moulded in parts, assembled, painted in cobalt blue and salt-glazed
Salt-glazing
Accession number: C.812-1928
Primary reference Number: 76143
Old object number: 443
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 (2024) "Wading Bird" Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/76143 Accessed: 2024-12-22 19:18:22
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