IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 76356 accession number: C.915-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 29 August 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: 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. object type: 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' title: figure group NOTES ----- type: history note value: 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 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/76356 PEOPLE ------------------- widow orphan baby TECHNIQUES ---------- 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 press-moulding CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware category: enamel painted figures DATING ------ creation date: 1820 - 1830 creation date earliest: 1820 creation date latest: 1830 culture: 1820s culture: George IV CREATORS -------- maker: Wood, Enoch DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Depth units: cm value: 12.4 dimension: Height units: cm value: 26.9 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge The Earle Collection of Early Staffordshire Pottery A Potted History: Henry Willett's Ceramic Chronicle of Britain --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_915_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_915_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_915_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_915_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_915_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_915_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_915_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_915_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_915_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_915_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_915_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_915_1928_283_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_915_1928_284_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/mid_C_915_1928_284_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_915_1928_284_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/preview_C_915_1928_284_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels