IDENTIFIERS
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id:	76220
accession number:	C.847-1928

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Friday 15 December 2023

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: White earthenware, moulded, painted in blue, olive-green, yellow, and brown under slightly blue tinted lead-glaze. The almost circular low base is closed and glazed underneath, and has a central ventilation hole. The reaper stands leaning against a tree trunk on a low mound decorated with two bunches of grapes and leaves, and part of a third. He stands with his weight on his left leg with his right slightly behind it. His head and body are turned to the viewer's right, and he holds a sheaf of corn under his right arm, and a sickle in his left. He has dark brown hair and eyes, a white shirt, yellow breeches, blue stockings and brown shoes. The corn is yellowish-brown and his sickle, green. The tree trunk is streaked with blue and brown. The circular base has green sides and a yellow border, both indented with small circular depressions.
object type: earthenware figure of a youth holding a sickle and a wheatsheaf painted in blue, olive-green, yellow, and brown under lead-glaze
title:	figure

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Robert Henry Soden Smith, FSA (1822-90); lent to the Victoria and Albert Museum; Sotheby's, 27 May 1909, part of lot 90 with a figure of Winter (C.845-1928); bought for £1.12s. by S. Fenton of Cranbourn Street, London, on behalf of 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/76220

PEOPLE
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Soden Smith, R.H.
Winter, Gillis de

SUBJECTS
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corn
corn



TECHNIQUES
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white earthenware, moulded, painted in blue, olive-green, yellow, and brown under slightly blue tinted lead-glaze. The base is closed and glazed underneath, and has a central ventilation hole.
press-moulding

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

DATING
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creation date:	1790 - 1810
creation date earliest:	1790
creation date latest:	1810
culture:	18th Century, Late-19th Century, Early#

CREATORS
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maker: Unidentified Staffordshire factory

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 20.9



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