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Cat: C.824-1928

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Current Location: In storage

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Maker(s)

Production: Unidentified Staffordshire factory

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Description

Earthenware with sgraffito decoration under lead-glaze

Pale red earthenware, press-moulded, coated with white slip, decorated by the sgraffito technique, sponged or dusted with copper green and manganese-purple oxide colours, which have run into the lead-glaze. The cat is sitting up. Its features, chain collar, and several flowers and floral sprays on its head and body have been incised through the slip, before application of the oxide colours and lead-glaze. Their overall effect is reminiscent of a tortoiseshell cat.

Notes

History note: Puttick & Simpson's sale of 17 May 1918, lot 210A, described as ‘A tortoiseshell seated figure of a cat with incised decorations 5 in high.’ ; bought for 20 or 21 guineas by Mr George Stoner from whom purchased for £35 on 29 May 1918 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge.

Legal notes

Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest

Measurements and weight

Height: 13.2 cm

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr

Dating

18th Century, third quarter
George II or George III
Circa 1750 - 1775

Components of the work

Decoration composed of oxide colours ( copper-green and manganese-purplish-brown)
Surface composed of slip ( white) lead-glaze

Materials used in production

pale red Earthenware

Techniques used in production

Press-moulding

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Identification numbers

Accession number: C.824-1928
Primary reference Number: 76188
Old object number: 4199

Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Tuesday 30 April 2024

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Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts

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