IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 76255 accession number: C.870-1984 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 18 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Shakespeare stands, leaning his left elbow on a column and crossing his left leg over his right; he holds a scroll in his left hand. The figure is well coloured. He wears a long flesh-pink coat with orange lining; a blue under-jacket decorated in gold; breeches which are finely painted in shades of green; a white shirt with broad collar; pale blue stockings and black shoes. His clothing is edged in gilt and there are gilt laces on his shoes. He is balding, with short black hair and a trimmed beard and moustache. The pillar has brown and flesh-pink bands. Black marks indicate writing on the scroll. The rectangular base has rounded corners and a vertical concavity to the front, in the centre of which is a gilt motif comprising a dot enclosed by two vertical bracket lines, with eight small gilt lines to either side. There is additional gilt decoration of four dots and a line on each side of the base front. The underside is concave and glazed. The back is partly moulded and coloured, with a vent hole 5 cm from the bottom. object type: White earthenware figure moulded in three parts with separately moulded left arm and leg, right hand, and scroll, and pearlware glazed. Painted in under-glaze blue and in black, green, orange, brown and flesh-pink enamels, and gilt. title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: From the collection of the late Colonel R.G. Turner. Given by Mrs J E Campbell, 1984. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by Mrs J.E.Cameron, from the collection of Col R.G.Turner, 1984 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/76255 PEOPLE ------------------- Milton, John Shakespeare, William TECHNIQUES ---------- White earthenware moulded in three parts with separately moulded left arm and leg, right hand, and scroll, and pearlware glazed. Painted in under-glaze blue and in black, green, orange, brown and flesh-pink enamels, and gilt. The underside is concave and glazed. The back is partly moulded and coloured, with a vent hole 5 cm from the bottom. press-moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- painting TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware DATING ------ creation date: 1840 - 1850 creation date earliest: 1840 creation date latest: 1850 culture: 19th Century, Mid# culture: Victoria I CREATORS -------- maker: John & Rebecca Lloyd DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Depth units: cm value: 8 dimension: Depth units: in value: 3.125 dimension: Height units: cm value: 23.3 dimension: Height units: in value: 9.25 dimension: Width units: cm value: 11.4 dimension: Width units: in value: 4.5 CITATIONS -------- Staffordshire Portrait Figures and Allied Subjects of the Victorian Era Victorian Staffordshire Figures 1835-1875, Book One: portraits, naval & military, theatrical & literary characters The Victorian Staffordshire Figure Staffordshire Portrait Figures --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_870_1984_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/mid_C_870_1984_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_870_1984_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/preview_C_870_1984_281_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_870_1984_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/mid_C_870_1984_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_870_1984_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/preview_C_870_1984_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels