IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 76203 accession number: C.835-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Saturday 10 June 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Cream earthenware figure of a lion standing on a rocky base. Moulding and incisions define features such as the mane, eyebrows, ribs and toes and green and brown colours, sponged underglaze, enhance the form. The eyes, coloured dark manganese brown, appear to heave been modeled separately and inserted.The base, a high mound, is hollow and glazed. The underside is open and glazed. object type: Earthenware figure, moulded with modelled additions, coloured with oxides and lead glazed. title: animal figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Bought from Miss Kingsland of Croydon on 9 June 1913, for £7, by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: J. W. L. Glaisher creditline: Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest, 1928 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/76203 SUBJECTS ------------------- lion lion TECHNIQUES ---------- cream earthenware, moulded and modelled, and decorated with manganese-oxide under lead glaze moulding CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware DATING ------ creation date: 1750 - 1770 creation date earliest: 1750 creation date latest: 1770 culture: 18th Century, third quarter# CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified factory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 12.7 dimension: Length units: cm value: 17 dimension: Width units: cm value: 9.5 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge English Earthenware Figures 1740-1840 Staffordshire Chimney Ornaments Animals in Pottery & Porcelain --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_835_1928_281_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/mid_C_835_1928_281_29.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_835_1928_281_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/preview_C_835_1928_281_29.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_835_1928_282_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/mid_C_835_1928_282_29.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_835_1928_282_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/preview_C_835_1928_282_29.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_835_1928_283_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/mid_C_835_1928_283_29.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_835_1928_283_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/preview_C_835_1928_283_29.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels