IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 76290 accession number: C.887-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 4 July 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: White earthenware, press-moulded, covered with very slightly blue lead-glaze, and painted in greyish-green, pale yellow, flesh pink, a little red, dark red, pale brown, and brown enamels. The shallow rectangular base is open and glazed inside. Andromach stands on a low mound beside an ovoid funerary urn on a tall pedestal with moulding round its upper and lower edges. She has her right leg crossed over her left, and leans towards the urn with her right arm around its upper part, and her left hand resting on its lower part at the front. She has brown hair swept back into a low chignon, and wears a long yellow tunic with green drapes around the low neckline and armhole edges. Her feet are bare. The urn and pedestal are pale brown overall, the mound is green and brown, and the base has a dark red line running round the outside edge, object type: lead-glazed earthenware figure of a woman mourning beside an urn painted in polychrome enamels title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Underwood’s, Oxford Street, London, where bought in January 1905, for £1 5s.0d. 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/76290 PEOPLE ------------------- Andromache SUBJECTS ------------------- urn urn TECHNIQUES ---------- white earthenware, press-moulded, covered with very slightly blue lead-glaze, and painted in greyish-green, pale yellow, flesh pink, a little red, dark red, pale brown, and brown enamels. press-moulding CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware category: pearlware category: enamel painted figures DATING ------ creation date: 1800 - 1820 creation date earliest: 1800 creation date latest: 1820 culture: 19th Century, Early# CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified Staffordshire factory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 23 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge 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_887_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_887_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_887_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_887_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_887_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_887_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_887_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_887_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_887_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_887_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_887_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_887_1928_283_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_887_1928_284_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/mid_C_887_1928_284_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_887_1928_284_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/preview_C_887_1928_284_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels