IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 76282 accession number: C.881A-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 29 August 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: White earthenware, moulded, covered with slightly blue tinted lead-glaze, and painted in blue, turquoise, yellow, green, flesh pink, dark salmon pink, lilac, brownish-red, brown, greyish-brown enamels. The figures are supported on a shallow straight-sided base decorated with a reddish-brown line, and the word 'Widow' . The closed underside has curved sides and a central ventilation hole. The widow sits on a rocky mound with a flowering tree behind her. She has her head turned to her right and holds a bundle of sticks in her right hand. She rests her left hand on top of a barrel beside which is a ewer inscribed 'Oil'. She wears a turquoise-lined veil over her head, a white dress decorated with floral sprigs and with lilac edgings round the neck and wrists, a yellow drape around her waist, a white cloak with a dark salmon pink lining, and sandals with brownish-red straps . He small son stands on her right holding a bunch of sticks in both hands. He is nude apart from a lilac drape. Both figures have greyish-brown hair, heavy brown eyebrows, rosy cheeks, and a red mouth. The mound is daubed with yellow, green turquoise and lilac. object type: lead-glazed earthenware figures of the widow of Zarephath and her son, painted in polychrome enamels title: figure group NOTES ----- type: history note value: Private house sale at Wisbech; bought by Mr Roe, Cambridge, from whom purchased with its companion figure for £8 on 24 February 1907 by 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/76282 PEOPLE ------------------- widow of Zarephath child SUBJECTS ------------------- barrel ewer barrel ewer TECHNIQUES ---------- white earthenware, press-moulded, covered with slightly blue tinted lead-glaze, and painted in blue, turquoise, yellow, green, flesh pink, dark salmon pink, lilac, brownish-red, brown, greyish-brown enamels moulding CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware category: pearlware category: coloured glazed figures DATING ------ creation date: 1790 - 1801 creation date earliest: 1790 creation date latest: 1801 culture: 18th Century, Late culture: George III CREATORS -------- maker: Wood, Ralph II maker: Wood, Ralph III DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 28.1 dimension: Width units: cm value: 13.5 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge English Earthenware Figures 1740-1840 --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_881A_1928_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/mid_C_881A_1928_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_881A_1928_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/preview_C_881A_1928_281_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_881A_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/mid_C_881A_1928_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_881A_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/preview_C_881A_1928_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels