IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 76304 accession number: C.895-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 30 April 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: White earthenware, press-moulded, with blue-tinted lead-glaze, painted in blue, turquoise, two shades of green, yellow, flesh-pink, puce, red, reddish-brown, and brown enamels. The figure is supported on a mound on a square straight-sided base, which is open and glazed inside, and has a reddish-brown line running round the outside. The goddess Hygieia stands on the mound beside a rectangular altar with flames rising from its top. She is turning slightly to her left, and holds a ewer in her right hand and on her left arm has a green coiled snake which she holds over the altar. She has pink cheeks, and brown hair which is swept back into a bun at the back with three tresses falling down over her shoulders. She wears a low-necked yellow dress with turquoise edgings which is long at the back, and drawn sideways at the front to show a long white skirt decorated with puce floral sprays and blue dots. Her feet are clad in sandals with reddish-brown straps. The mound is coloured green and brown with four turquoise leaves at the front, and the altar has horizontal blue bands below the top moulding and above the bottom moulding. object type: lead-glazed earthenware figure of Hygieia painted in polychrome enamels title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Bought in Cannon Street, City in 1892 with another figure for £1.15s.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/76304 PEOPLE ------------------- Hygieia SUBJECTS ------------------- health snake altar snake altar TECHNIQUES ---------- white earthenware, press-moulded, covered with slightly blue-tinted lead-glaze, and painted in blue, turquoise, two shades of green, yellow, flesh pink, puce, red, reddish-brown, and brown enamels press-moulding CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware category: pearlware 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: 23.5 dimension: Width units: cm value: 9.2 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 --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_895_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_895_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_895_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_895_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_895_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_895_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_895_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_895_1928_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels