IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 76326 accession number: C.900-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Saturday 24 June 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Earthenware, press-moulded, covered with blue-tinted lead-glaze, and painted in blue, turquoise, pale yellow, flesh pink, pale pink, red, brown, grey, and black enamels. The shallow, straight-sided rectangular base is hollow underneath, and is painted in blue, pale red, brown, grey and black to resemble marble. Demosthenes stands on his left leg with his right advanced. He leans forward, extending his right arm and holding up his cloak up to his chest with his left hand. He has black hair and beard, and wears a white tunic and a long turquoise cloak with a pink lining and yellow fringe. On the viewer's right there is a tall pedestal veined in black to resemble marble, and decorated on the front in relief with a green swag above an arched panel enclosing a scene showing a small figure of Demosthenes standing on a rocky promontory addressing the waves, with two sailing ships in the distance, and overhead, a larger figure of Hermes/Mercury holding a caduceus with a cloud below him. object type: earthenware with blue-tinted lead-glaze, painted in polychrome enamels title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Christie, Manson & Woods, London, 12 December 1918, Porcelain, decorative furniture and Eastern rugs, lot 37; purchased for 37 guineas by Mr Stoner who sold it on the same day for £38 to Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, 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/76326 PEOPLE ------------------- Demosthenes Hermes SUBJECTS ------------------- ship scroll ship scroll TECHNIQUES ---------- earthenware, press-moulded in parts, covered with blue-tinted lead-glaze, and painted in blue, turquoise, pale yellow, flesh pink, pale pink, red, brown, grey, and black enamels press-moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware category: pearlware category: enamel painted figures DATING ------ creation date: 1784 - 1793 creation date earliest: 1784 creation date latest: 1793 culture: 18th Century, Late culture: George III CREATORS -------- maker: Wood, Enoch maker: Cheere, John DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 48.2 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Plagiarism Personified? European Pottery and Porcelain Figures CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge English Ceramics 1580-1830, A Commemorative Catalogue to Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the English Ceramic Circle 1927-1977 Plagiarism Personified? European Pottery and Porcelain Figures Fitzwilliam Museum Handbooks, English Pottery English Earthenware Figures 1740-1840 Baroque forms and decoration on English Pottery 1640-1760 William Constable as Patron 1721-1791. An Exhibition of Paintings, Sculpture, Prints, Furniture Books and Scientific Instruments collected during the eghteenth century by William Constable, Esq. of Burton Constable, East Riding The Wood Family of Burslem The Enoch Wood Paper Archive: Part I. Some new information on Ralph Wood, Jean Voyez and Fidelle Duvivier and their roles in 18th century Burslem Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Ceramics, Catalogue of English Porcelain, Earthenware, Enamels and Glass collected by Charles Schreiber Esq., M.P., and the Lady Charlotte Elizabeth Schreiber, and presented to the Museum in 1884, Volume I, Porcelain The Man at Hyde Park Corner, Sculpture by John Cheere 1709-1787 --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa32/c_900_1928_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 873 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa32/mid_c_900_1928_dc2.jpg height: 586 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa32/c_900_1928_dc2.jpg height: 1024 pixels width: 873 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa32/preview_c_900_1928_dc2.jpg height: 293 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/C_900_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/mid_C_900_1928_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/C_900_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/preview_C_900_1928_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels