IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 76357 accession number: C.916-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Friday 4 August 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Staffordshire figure group of a square double pulpit; at the top, a sleeping vicar with his head resting on his left hand; at the bottom, a speaking clerk with his left hand raised in benediction; each figure has his right hand draped over the front of his pulpit, on which rests an open bible. The vicar wears a wig and clerical dress, the clerk has brown hair and wears a brown jacket and striped waistcoat, the bibles are edged in blue. The pulpit is red brown and decorated with four small modeled angels. The back is flat but painted. The underside is flat and unglazed, with a large central vent hole. object type: Earthenware figure group, moulded and modelled, lead-glazed and painted with polychrome enamels. title: figure group NOTES ----- type: history note value: Bought from Mr Woolstan of Hyde Park Corner, Cambridge, on 4 December 1905, for 15/- (fifteen shillings), 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, 1928 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/76357 PEOPLE ------------------- Hogarth, William Stevens, George Alexander vicar SUBJECTS ------------------- The Sleeping Congregation pulpit pulpit TECHNIQUES ---------- Earthenware, moulded and modelled, lead glazed and painted with enamels. moulding CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware DATING ------ creation date: 1810 - 1835 creation date earliest: 1810 creation date latest: 1835 culture: 19th Century, Early# CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified factory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 225 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge The Wood Family of Burslem English Earthenware Figures 1740-1840 People, Passions, Pastimes, and Pleasures, Staffordshire Figures 1810-1835 Property from the Collection of Joseph and Walter Bush Ford II, 6 October 2006 Songs, comic and satyrical --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa1/C_916_1928_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa1/mid_C_916_1928_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa1/C_916_1928_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa1/preview_C_916_1928_281_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa1/C_916_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa1/mid_C_916_1928_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa1/C_916_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa1/preview_C_916_1928_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa1/C_916_1928_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa1/mid_C_916_1928_283_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa1/C_916_1928_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa1/preview_C_916_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_916_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_916_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_916_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_916_1928_284_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels