IDENTIFIERS
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id:	76233
accession number:	C.854-1928

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

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Cream earthenware, press-moulded, and painted in blue, olive-green, yellow, orange, and dark brown under lead-glaze. The underside is open and glazed internally. The cat lies on a rectangular cushion with a convex yellow top and a sloping green gathered side. Its front paws are just visible, and its tail is curled around its hind quarters. It has dark brown eyes and eyebrows, and spots inside its ears, the tips of which are missing. The cream body is decorated with randomly-placed short blue, green and orange brush strokes, and on the tail with black spots.
object type: cream earthenware painted underglaze in blue, olive-green, yellow, orange, and dark brown
title:	animal figure

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Puttick and Simpson, London, 10 March1922, one of four cats, in lot 30; bought for 4½ guineas by Mack (the porter) 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/76233


SUBJECTS
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cat
cushion
cat
cushion



TECHNIQUES
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cream earthenware, press-moulded, fired to biscuit, painted in blue, green, yellow, orange, and dark brwon, and lead-glazed before firing again
press-moulding

CATEGORIES
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category: lead-glazed earthenware
category: Pratt Ware

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

CREATORS
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maker: Unidentified Staffordshire factory

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 6.6



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