IDENTIFIERS
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id:	76207
accession number:	C.839-1928

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Tuesday 18 July 2023

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Cream earthenware, moulded (probably slip cast), with incised indications of feathers, streaked with manganese-brown and green oxide colours under lead-glaze. The underside is closed and has a large circular ventilation hole in the centre. The bird is standing with its feet on either side of a conical rocky mound. It faces to the front and holds a large blackberry in its beak.
object type: cream earthenware streaked with brown and green under lead-glaze
title:	animal figure

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Mr F. L. Furphey, Oakwood, Priory Road, Sale, in a letter offered to sell the bird on 1 January 1918 for £40. It was sent on approval to Cambridge, where bought for that amount on 27 January 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/76207


SUBJECTS
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bird
pigeon
blackberry
pigeon
blackberry



TECHNIQUES
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cream earthenware, moulded (possibly slip cast)  with incised details, and applied blackberry, streaked and dabbed with manganese-brown and copper-green oxide colours under lead-glaze
moulding

CATEGORIES
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category: lead-glazed earthenware
category: underglaze painted figures

DATING
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creation date:	1750 - 1770
creation date earliest:	1750
creation date latest:	1770
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: 22

dimension: Length
units: cm
value: 14.2



CITATIONS
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Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge
English Earthenware Figures 1740-1840
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