IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 76286 accession number: C.883-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Friday 15 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Cream earthenware, moulded, covered with slightly blue tinted lead-glaze, and painted in blue, turquoise, yellowish-green, pale buff, pink, puce, flesh pink, red, dark brown, grey, and black enamels. The model is supported on a deep-sided square base painted to resemble marble, and having a circular hole in its back wall. It is hollow underneath and has a large oval ventilation hole to left of centre. Chaucer stands on the viewer's right of a four-sided pedestal with incurved sides, standing on a circular base also painted to resemble marble. On its top is a scroll resting on two large books, one bound in turquoise and the other in puce. Chaucer stands on his left foot and has his right raised on the edge of the pedestal's base. He turns his head to his left, holds his coat to him with his left hand, rests his right forearm on top of the scroll, and in his right hand holds a smaller brown book upright on top of the pedestal. He is bearded, and wears a pale buff hood, a flowered waistcoat with puce edges and buttons, a long gown decorated with blue sprigs and dotted circles, and lined with pink, which has long sleeves with slashed tops and scalloped cuffs, pale buff breeches, white stockings and turquoise shoes with pink rosettes on top. object type: lead-glazed earthenware painted in polychrome enamels. Chaucer standing beside a pedestal with a books and a scroll on its top title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Sotheby's, 9 July 1907, part of lot 47; bought Mr V.B. Button for £12.10s. 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/76286 PEOPLE ------------------- Chaucer, Geoffrey SUBJECTS ------------------- poetry TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing TECHNIQUES ---------- moulding CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware category: pearlware category: enamel painted figures DATING ------ creation date: 1785 - 1800 creation date earliest: 1785 creation date latest: 1800 culture: 18th Century, Late culture: George III CREATORS -------- maker: Wood, Ralph, II DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 31.5 dimension: Width units: cm value: 15.2 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_883_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_883_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_883_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_883_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_883_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_883_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_883_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_883_1928_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels