IDENTIFIERS
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id:	76352
accession number:	C.912A-1928

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Tuesday 29 August 2023

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Cream earthenware, press-moulded, lead-glazed, and painted in greyish-blue, green, yellow, flesh pink, purplish-pink, brown, greyish-brown, dark brown, and black enamels; the underside is open and glazed. The figure is supported on a shallow, straight-sided square base painted in greyish-blue, yellow, red, brown, and black to resemble marble, and has painted on the back edge 'Widow Serepla.' (sic)  The widow is seated on a rocky mound with her right leg crossed over her left, leaning on her left arm (missing) on the top of a barrel beside her. She holds a cake in her right hand which rests on her knee.  She wears a long white robe and a purplish-pink cloak with a yellow lining over her head and upper body, and has sandals with black straps on her feet. The mound is brown with green foliage sprouting from it, and the barrel is greyish-brown with dark brown bands at the top and bottom.
object type: lead-glazed earthenware painted in enamels
title:	figure

NOTES
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type: history note
value: A.G. Smith, 193 Wardour Street, London, from whom bought with a figure of Elijah for £6.10s.0d. on 27 February 1905 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
collection:	J. W. L. Glaisher
creditline: Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/76352

PEOPLE
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widow of Zarephath

SUBJECTS
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barrel
barrel



TECHNIQUES
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earthenware, moulded, lead-glazed, and painted in enamels
moulding

CATEGORIES
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category: lead-glazed earthenware

DATING
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creation date:	1820 - 1830
creation date earliest:	1820
creation date latest:	1830
culture:	1820s
culture:	George IV

CREATORS
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maker: Enoch Wood

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 23

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 10.4



CITATIONS
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Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge
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