IDENTIFIERS
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id:	76248
accession number:	C.868-1928

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 underglaze in blue, green, flesh pink, yellowish-brown, and dark brown. The figure stands on a high green washed mound covered with relief and impressed wavy lines to resemble grass, supported on a low square base, which is mainly unglazed underneath and has a central ventilation hole.. The woman faces to the front holding a bird to her chest in her left hand, and holding a bag at her side with her right hand. She wears a dark brown hat, a full -length, long-sleeved dress scattered with blue arrow motifs pointing downwards, a yellowish-brown kerchief round her neck and shoulders, and dark brown shoes.
object type: earthenware decorated with clear, blue, green yellowish-brown, and dark brown lead-glazes; a standing girl holding a bag in her right hand and a bird (?) in her left
title:	figure

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Sotheby's, 27 May 1919, one of two items in lot 87; bought by S. Fenton of Cranbourn Street for £ 1 14s.0d. 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/76248





TECHNIQUES
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press-moulding

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

DATING
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creation date:	1790 - 1800
creation date earliest:	1790
creation date latest:	1800
culture:	18th Century, Late

CREATORS
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maker: Unidentified Staffordshire factory

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 17.3



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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