IDENTIFIERS
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id:	76357
accession number:	C.916-1928

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Friday 4 August 2023

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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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
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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
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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, 1928

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/76357

PEOPLE
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Hogarth, William
Stevens, George Alexander
vicar

SUBJECTS
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The Sleeping Congregation
pulpit
pulpit



TECHNIQUES
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Earthenware, moulded and modelled, lead glazed and painted with enamels.
moulding

CATEGORIES
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category: lead-glazed earthenware

DATING
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creation date:	1810 - 1835
creation date earliest:	1810
creation date latest:	1835
culture:	19th Century, Early#

CREATORS
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maker: Unidentified factory

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 225



CITATIONS
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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
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