IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 76269 accession number: C.876-1984 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 18 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: The shepherdess stands on a rock above two recumbent sheep. She rests her right hand on a rock. The figure is well coloured. She wears a blue bodice and a full yellow skirt which is finely painted with orange and green spots and dark pink flowers, also: an orange sash, trimmed with green, and a hat with a green feather. An orange water bladder hangs at her right side. Her hair is long. The sheep are white with orange-brown patches; an impressed pattern suggests fur. The oval-rectangular base has a gilt line across the front; the top is moulded and coloured to suggest rough ground, in yellow and green, with patches of brown and two clumps of multi-coloured shredded clay ‘parsley’ vegetation just below the skirt. The underside is concave and glazed. The back is flat and undecorated, with some vertical comb marks in the clay and a vent hole 12 cm from the bottom. object type: White earthenware figure, press-moulded in three parts with white shredded clay added as decoration, and lead glazed. Painted underglaze in cobalt blue, and with black, brown, green, yellow, orange, red, pink and flesh-pink enamels, and gilt. title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: From the collection of the late Colonel R.G. Turner. 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 1984, from the collection of the late Col R G Turner STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/76269 SUBJECTS ------------------- shepherd Scotland TECHNIQUES ---------- White earthenware, press-moulded in three parts with white shredded clay added as decoration, and lead glazed. Painted underglaze in cobalt blue, and with black, brown, green, yellow, orange, red, pink and flesh-pink enamels, and gilt. The underside is concave and glazed. The back is flat and undecorated, with some vertical comb marks in the clay and a vent hole 12 cm from the bottom. press-moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware DATING ------ creation date: 1850 - 1865 creation date earliest: 1850 creation date latest: 1865 culture: 19th Century, Mid# culture: Victorian CREATORS -------- maker: Dudson DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Depth units: cm value: 7 dimension: Depth units: in value: 2.75 dimension: Height units: cm value: 27.5 dimension: Height units: in value: 10.875 dimension: Width units: cm value: 11.0 dimension: Width units: in value: 4.5 CITATIONS -------- Staffordshire Portrait Figures and Allied Subjects of the Victorian Era --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa1/C_876_1984_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa1/mid_C_876_1984_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa1/C_876_1984_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa1/preview_C_876_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_876_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_876_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_876_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_876_1984_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels