IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 76289 accession number: C.886-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Friday 4 August 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Cream earthenware, press-moulded, lead-glazed, and painted in blue, green, dark green, turquoise, pale mauve, dark mauve, red, reddish-brown, and greyish-brown enamels. The figure stands on a low mound on top of a rectangular base which is open and glazed underneath. On the viewer’s left is a high square pedestal supporting a large ovoid urn decorated with gadrooning, swags, and foliage. Andromache stands on the viewer’s right with her right leg crossed over her left. She leans towards the urn with her right arm around its upper part and her left hand touching its lower part. She has a green garland over her greyish-brown hair which is dressed with a low chignon at the back. She wears a long pale mauve dress scattered with darker mauve floral sprigs, detached flowers, and spots, and has narrow turquoise drapes around the low neckline and armholes. On her feet she has reddish-brown sandals. The pedestal has a blue border at the top and bottom. The urn has green and dark green foliage on the top of its cover, a row of blue spots, a reddish-brown horizontal band with green swags below, and a wider reddish-brown band round the foot. The mound is coloured green and brown and there is a reddish-brown band running round the base. object type: lead-glazed earthenware painted in polychrome enamels. Andromache mourning over an urn on a pedestal title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Bought in Cannon Street, London, with C.895-1928, for £1.15s.0d., in 1892 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambidge 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/76289 PEOPLE ------------------- Andromache SUBJECTS ------------------- mourning urn mourning urn TECHNIQUES ---------- cream earthenware, press-moulded, lead-glazed, and painted in blue, green, dark green, turquoise, pale mauve, dark mauve, red, reddish-brown, and greyish-brown enamels press-moulding CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware category: enamel painted figures DATING ------ creation date: 1790 - 1810 creation date earliest: 1790 creation date latest: 1810 culture: 18th Century, Late-19th Century, Early# culture: George III CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified Staffordshire factory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 22.3 dimension: Width units: cm value: 9 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge A Collector's History of English Pottery A Collector's History of English Pottery English Earthenware Figures 1740-1840 Creamware and other English Pottery at Temple Newsam House, Leeds Some Neo-classical Ceramics at Temple Newsam 1770-1800 --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_886_1928_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_886_1928_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_886_1928_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_886_1928_281_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_886_1928_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_886_1928_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_886_1928_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_886_1928_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_886_1928_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/mid_C_886_1928_283_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_886_1928_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/preview_C_886_1928_283_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_886_1928_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/mid_C_886_1928_283_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/C_886_1928_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/preview_C_886_1928_283_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels