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Widow and Orphans
Production: Wood, Enoch (Possibly)
Lead-glazed earthenware figure of a woman with a baby and two little girls painted in polychrome enamels and inscribed on the base 'Widow/&/Orphans'
White earthenware, press-moulded, lead-glazed, and painted in blue, turquoise, green, yellow, flesh pink, red, lilac, dark brown, and black enamels. The underside is glazed and open and has a circular ventilation hole near the front. The figures are supported on a round straight-sided mound base with a tree trunk on the viewer's right, and a small pile of fire wood on the ground beside it. The widow stands with her left hand raised and her right hand extended to the front, holding a coin in the upturned palm of her hand. She carries a baby on her back, and has a little girl kneeling in front of her and a little boy with a heap of fire wood on his head standing further to the left. The woman has a white scarf over her brown hair, and wears a long blue short-sleeved dress patterned in black and green, and a yellow cloak with a turquoise lining. The kneeling girl has a blue headband on her dark brown hair, and wears a lilac dress with a green belt and cuffs. The little boy has a red tunic, green breeches, and black shoes. The base is coloured in shades of green and black, and on the front has an oval reserve inscribed 'Widow/&/Orphans' within a black frame.
History note: J. Staal & Co, South Molton Street, London, W. where bought for £3.10s. on 20 November 1911 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Depth: 12.4 cm
Height: 26.9 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
1820s
George IV
Circa
1820
-
1830
In Rackham's Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection . . ., 1935, this group was attributed probably to Enoch Wood's factory after the end of his partnership with James Caldwell in 1818.
Decoration
composed of
enamels
( pale blue, blue, green, turquoise, yellow, lilac, flesh pink, red, brown, and black)
Surface
composed of
lead-glaze
( very slightly tinted blue, visible under the base)
Base
Width 12.7 cm
white Earthenware
Press-moulding : White earthenware, press-moulded, lead-glazed and painted in pale blue, blue, green, turquoise, yellow, lilac, flesh pink, red, brown, and black enamels; the underside of the base is glazed and open and has a ventilation hole near the front
Inscription present: on reserved oval panel
Inscription present: rectangular white paper stick on label with two red lines round all but the lower edge
Inscription present: circular white paper stick on label
Accession number: C.915-1928
Primary reference Number: 76356
Old object number: 3511
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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