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Parrot
Unidentified Staffordshire Pottery
(Pottery)
White salt-glazed stoneware, decorated with brown slip and dark cobalt-blue pigment. The parrot stands on a brown rock. Its beak is brown and its eyes dark blue-black.
History note: Frank Stoner, London, from whom purchased on 12 November 1924 for £95 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 27.4 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed
(1928-12-07)
by
Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
Mid 18th Century
George II
Circa
1755
-
1760
1760
This bird resembles a parrot, but the base is similar to those supporting Chinese porcelain figures of hawks, also imitated in Delftware. An interest in natural history was an aspect of the European Enlightenment of the eighteenth century. Ornithology was particularly popular and the educated public became familiar with exotic species from imported specimens, and from reading illustrated books such as the four volumes of George Edwards, 'A Natural History Birds'. Some ceramic bird models were based on book illustrations or prints, and others on imported Chinese examples of hawks, parrots, and wading birds.
Base And Beak: composed of slip ( brown) Eyes: composed of cobalt-blue
off-white Stoneware
Accession number: C.813-1928
Primary reference Number: 76144
Old object number: 4445
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) "Animal figure"
Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/76144 Accessed: 2021-12-07 20:25:29
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Accession Number: C.2752A-1928
Accession Number: C.221-1918
Accession Number: C.2752B-1928
Accession Number: C.68-1932
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