1592999679000 1312637261000 Standard Record object-76358 1753812130443 1724769273000 1753812119258 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-76358 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/76358 43eedf54-3a1e-30f6-b4d7-fb690e9e4ee7 6 reference agent-153952 adlib-agent-153952 8be2c3ab-fa91-3035-bfdd-ad1c73ca24bb cleric reference term-108657 adlib-term-108657 c170cd8e-fc63-3446-81a4-6682b5979808 lead-glazed earthenware reference term-42858 adlib-term-42858 28dd1a37-f2da-31c5-a8b7-684957070a75 pearlware reference term-113184 adlib-term-113184 25fc548d-d02f-39a6-a34f-d609393a0043 J. W. L. Glaisher blue, green, yellow dark pink, flesh tones, reddish-brown, brown, grey, and black reference term-107563 adlib-term-107563 38dcd825-1de1-3222-82c6-15a95729b5ff enamels Decoration blue, green, yellow dark pink, flesh tones, reddish-brown, brown, grey, and black enamels reference term-106226 adlib-term-106226 194567f2-2bcd-3446-ae31-652386611815 painting slightly blue tinted; unevenly applied leaving bare patches on the underside of base reference term-107733 adlib-term-107733 00160189-e3ce-3796-a88b-5aa8d6c808c4 lead-glaze Surface slightly blue tinted; partial glazing on underside reference term-120062 adlib-term-120062 d05176fb-17b8-3888-bba1-6c5e6c77d206 lead-glazing Length cm 17.8 Base Applied Arts Lead-glazed earthenware painted in polychrome enamels. An inebriated parson clutching a bottle being led by the parish clerk holding a lantern Off-white earthenware, moulded, covered with slightly blue-tinted lead glaze, and painted in blue, green, yellow dark pink, flesh tones, reddish-brown, brown, grey, and black enamels. The figures stand on a grassy mound with a tree trunk at the back, rising from an elongated pink octagonal base which is hollow underneath and partially covered with blue-tinted glaze. The Clerk, on the viewer's right, has a ruddy complexion and brown hair, and wears a black hat, reddish-brown coat, green breeches, blue stockings and black shoes, and holds a lantern in his left hand. He grasps the parson's left arm to steady him and lead him to the churchyard.The parson, wears a black tricorn hat over a bluish-white wig, a black jacket, a pink and blue horizontally striped waistcoat with yellow buttons, yellow breeches, white stockings and black shoes with yellow buckles. He looks down and leans away from the clerk, holding a glass in his left hand, and clutching a green bottle to him with his right hand. He stands on his left leg and drags his right behind him as if unsteady and not wanting to go forward. C.917-1928 1 accession number C.917-1928 76358 priref 76358 Glaisher MS Catalogue, vol. 8 old object number 3008 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/76358 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/76358 rectangular white paper stick on label with a blue line edging on left side and plant motifs in the two top corners. on back of underside of base hand-written in black ink No 3009/Staffordshire/group of the/Parson and/Clerk./A good specimen/of this group./b. at Sotheby's/March 12 1909. label reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest reference agent-152564 adlib-agent-152564 c20df94d-f096-3e0b-a9b5-6ddd12161fb7 Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr 1928 1928 1928-12-07 bequeathed The Glaisher ceramic collection was entered in the accession register as one item with the date of Dr Glaisher's death. 1800 1800 1800 circa 1800 1815 1 1815 1815 1815 production reference agent-188993 adlib-agent-188993 7550c9da-135b-3f18-9344-2303a850cf51 Unidentified Staffordshire factory This group was first made in the late 1780s or early 1790s, but the bold, rather crudely applied colouring indicates that this example was probably made in the early nineteenth century. It may have been made in the factory of Enoch Wood and James Caldwell at Burslem. The theme of the group derives from a song, 'The Vicar and Moses' published in 1773 by Charles and Samuel Thomson in London. The earliest known illustration of 'The Vicar and Moses' appeared above the title and verses on a broadsheet attributed to Thomas Colley published in January 1782 by Hannah Humphrey, a London print shop owner. An example of the ballad is in the British Museum (inv. no. 1872,1012.4907). Although the print is a more cruelly anticlerical satire showing an immensely stout vicar and a wretchedly thin clerk holding a lantern, it was probably the inspiration for this Staffordshire group. Another print with differently represented characters appears as decoration on creamware jugs and mugs. It was published by Bowles & Carver after Robert Dighton (1752-1814) in 1785. (British Museum inv. 1935,0522.1.174) In the song, the Vicar is called out to undertake the burial of a baby, which, as parish registers show, was an all too frequent occurrence in that era because of the high infant mortality rate. The satirist shows the vicar as a bon viveur, who forgetting his religious duties, and the sorrowing parents, has to be dragged out of the village inn where he has been drinking and smoking, to go to the churchyard to attend the burial. But on arrival, is too inebriated to read the service and the infant is interred without it. The theme reflects the high level of anti-clerical sentiment in the late 18th century. A probably earlier group on a lower base and with less garish colouring is in the Willett Collection in the Brighton Museum (Willett Collection no. 807), and one with a mound base similar in shape to the Fitzwilliam's is in the Victoria and Albert Museum (inv. no. 298-1969). reference term-134369 adlib-term-134369 e802f29c-a259-3ff8-940a-81beac6a5913 19th Century, Early reference term-107437 adlib-term-107437 96f4b0d1-fc11-39ff-ae91-1b23d888d479 George III reference term-107658 adlib-term-107658 824d3ecf-92c1-33aa-8d45-2f0239317270 literal England England country Staffordshire off-white reference term-42861 adlib-term-42861 5b368285-f1a8-3dcf-a5b2-637fd3c3956c earthenware Height cm 23.2 Length cm 18.6 reference media-47531 adlib-media-47531 b12f8097-c8ab-37de-b633-8daef419121e jpeg aa/aa8/C_917_1928_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 740 width pixels 570 1742583646366 1 image jpeg aa/aa8/mid_C_917_1928_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 649 width pixels 500 1742583646366 1 image jpeg aa/aa8/C_917_1928_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 740 width pixels 570 1742583646366 1 image jpeg aa/aa8/preview_C_917_1928_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 325 width pixels 250 1742583646366 1 image 0 media image reference media-47532 adlib-media-47532 3ea53d90-e52b-3828-aab6-aef80de35f31 jpeg aa/aa8/C_917_1928_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 740 width pixels 570 1742583593236 1 image jpeg aa/aa8/mid_C_917_1928_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 649 width pixels 500 1742583593236 1 image jpeg aa/aa8/C_917_1928_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 740 width pixels 570 1742583593236 1 image jpeg aa/aa8/preview_C_917_1928_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 325 width pixels 250 1742583593236 1 image 1 media image reference term-110220 adlib-term-110220 e22d3544-a393-3f19-9be4-dc2632ca9942 figure group history note Sotheby's, 12 March, 1909, lot 161; purchased for £2.16s. by S. Fenton, Cranbourn Street, London, with 10% commission on behalf of Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge. reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum Publ. Vol. l, p. 121, no. 917, attributed to Enoch Wood after 1818, and identified as Parson and Clerk 121 reference publication-1031 adlib-publication-1031 a5cc6cb3-2b6f-390a-af51-7e9d123e55ed Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge reference publication-6492 adlib-publication-6492 8f7a7c8d-d834-39c7-aba5-eddaaff4dd0c English Earthenware Figures 1740-1840 Cf. pp. 74-5 for the words of the song 'The Vicar and Moses'. Cf. p. 75, fig. 178 a mug decorated with an anti-clerical transfer-print showing a parson being led from an inn by a clerk holding a lantern going in the same direction as the pottery group, and p. 74, fig. 175 a mug with a different parson and clerk going to the left, and fig. 176 a jug with the same print. pp. 74-5 reference publication-3569 adlib-publication-3569 acb8fe53-eaa3-350b-8a4f-30281485bc73 Printed English Pottery, History and Humour in the reign of George III 1760-1820 Cf. p. 174, no. 807, an earlier version with a different base and more subtle colouring, dated c. 1790, with a jug, no. 803 printed with the entire poem signed by John Aynsley. The author identified the source 174 reference publication-8448 adlib-publication-8448 4ef2e26f-cb4d-3b92-9c93-840dff116ed8 A Potted History: Henry Willett's Ceramic Chronicle of Britain Cf. p. 38, lot 119, an example of this model on a high rectangular base; the clerk is wearing a blue coat, with the model showing the Vicar and his clerk Moses in a double pulpit, as in C.916-1928 38 reference publication-8987 adlib-publication-8987 4674d3a7-d5fd-31c4-8df3-8b63651c3f05 British and Continental Ceramics and Glass reference term-147495 adlib-term-147495 1d550046-bcb5-38da-904f-222146d33e3b anti-clericalism

reference term-110220 adlib-term-110220 e22d3544-a393-3f19-9be4-dc2632ca9942 figure group

figure group off-white earthenware, moulded, covered with slightly blue-tinted lead-glaze, and painted in blue, green, yellow dark pink, flesh tones, reddish-brown, brown, grey, and black enamels in parts, assembled before firing reference term-111179 adlib-term-111179 be5c887b-c0ed-3d89-82b2-c3a870e72a68 moulding object OBJECT