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Cat
Production: Unidentified Staffordshire factory
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.
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.
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 13.2 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, third quarter#
George II or George III
Circa
1750
-
1775
Decoration
composed of
oxide colours
( copper-green and manganese-purplish-brown)
Surface
composed of
slip
( white)
lead-glaze
pale red Earthenware
Accession number: C.824-1928
Primary reference Number: 76188
Old object number: 4199
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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