IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 76344 accession number: C.910-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 29 August 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: White earthenware figure of Britannia, seated, with her right hand raised to hold a metal trident (now missing). She wears a green robe with a red cloak over a light purple dress. Over her chest is a breast-plate and on her head a feathered helmet, both stippled grey to suggest metal. With her left hand she supports a grey ‘metal’ shield with the Union Jack in relief. A yellow brown lion crouches to her right. It has a modelled mane and eyes, nose, whiskers and claws picked out in black; its rear is concealed beneath Britannia’s robe. The whole group is supported on a rocky mound with flowers and ‘parsley’ grass applied in relief. The underside is slightly recessed and flat, with a large central vent hole, and glazed. object type: Earthenware figure group, moulded with modelled additions, lead glazed and painted with enamels. title: figure and animal group NOTES ----- type: history note value: A.G.Smith, 193 Wardour Street, London from whom bought for £8 on 15 February 1905, by 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/76344 PEOPLE ------------------- Britannia SUBJECTS ------------------- lion lion CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware DATING ------ creation date: 1810 - 1818 creation date earliest: 1810 creation date latest: 1818 culture: 19th Century, Early# culture: George III CREATORS -------- maker: Wood, Enoch maker: Wood & Caldwell DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Depth units: cm value: 15.2 dimension: Height units: cm value: 24.2 dimension: Width units: cm value: 17.2 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge English Earthenware Figures 1740-1840 The Wood Family of Burslem Victorian Staffordshire Figures 1835-1875, Book Two: religious, hunters, pastoral, occupations, children & animals, dogs, animals, cottages & castles, sport & miscellaneous Collecting Staffordshire Pottery --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_910_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_910_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_910_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_910_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_910_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_910_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_910_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_910_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_910_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_910_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_910_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_910_1928_283_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels