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Cat
Production: Unidentified Staffordshire factory
Cream earthenware painted in reddish-brown, paler brown, and dark brown under lead-glaze. A cat reclining on an oval base
Cream earthenware, press-moulded, and painted in reddish-brown, paler brown and dark brown under lead-glaze. The underside is open and the interior is glazed. The cat reclines with its head turned towards the viewer and its tail curled round its right hind leg. Its ears and features are picked out in dark brown, and its body is covered with randomly placed dabs of the three shades of brown. The oval base has slanting striations on its sloping sides, and is painted with roughly oval splodges of the three shades of brown.
History note: Puttick & Simpson, London, 10 March 1922, one of four cats in lot 30; purchased for 4½ guineas by Mack on behalf of Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 7.6 cm
Length: 9.1 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
19th Century, Early#
George III
Circa
1790
-
1810
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( metalic oxides)
Surface
composed of
lead-glaze
white Earthenware
Press-moulding : Cream earthenware, press-moulded, painted in reddish-brown, paler brown and dark brown, and lead-glazed; the underside is open and the interior is glazed
Inscription present: rectangular white paper stick-on label with a narrow dark blue line running round the left, right, and top sides
Accession number: C.855-1928
Primary reference Number: 76234
Old object number: 3772
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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