IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 76234 accession number: C.855-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Friday 15 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: 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. object type: cream earthenware painted in reddish-brown, paler brown, and dark brown under lead-glaze. A cat reclining on an oval base title: animal figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: 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 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 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/76234 SUBJECTS ------------------- cat cat TECHNIQUES ---------- 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 press-moulding CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware category: underglaze painted figures DATING ------ creation date: 1790 - 1810 creation date earliest: 1790 creation date latest: 1810 culture: 19th Century, Early# culture: George III CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified Staffordshire factory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 7.6 dimension: Length units: cm value: 9.1 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Pratt Ware English Earthenware Figures 1740-1840 --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_855_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_855_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_855_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_855_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_855_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_855_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_855_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_855_1928_282_29.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels