IDENTIFIERS
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id:	76188
accession number:	C.824-1928

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Tuesday 4 July 2023

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: 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.
object type: earthenware with sgraffito decoration under lead-glaze
title:	animal figure

NOTES
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type: history note
value: 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.


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
collection:	J. W. L. Glaisher
creditline: Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/76188


SUBJECTS
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cat
cat



TECHNIQUES
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press-moulding

CATEGORIES
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category: lead-glazed earthenware
category: sgraffito ware

DATING
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creation date:	1750 - 1775
creation date earliest:	1750
creation date latest:	1775
culture:	18th Century, third quarter#
culture:	George II or George III

CREATORS
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maker: Unidentified Staffordshire factory

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 13.2



CITATIONS
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English Pottery, Its Development from Early Times to the End of the Eighteenth Century
Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge
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