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Little Boy
Production:
Unidentified Staffordshire factory
Production:
Wood, Enoch
(Possibly)
Lead-glazed earthenware painted in enamels
White earthenware moulded, and hand modelled, covered with slightly blue tinted lead-glaze and painted in greyish-blue, two shades of green, yellow flesh pink, pale orange, red, lilac, greyish-brown, and dark brown enamels. The square straight-sided based is glazed and hollow underneath and has a central ventilation hole. Its exterior is decorated with two horizontal dark brown lines. The little boy stands on a mound in front of a tree trunk with short projecting branches and bocage level with his thighs. The front of the mound is decorated with curving blue and pale orange strokes. The boy has three leaves on top of his greyish-brown hair, and is nude apart from a black and yellow spotted drape with green edges which passes over his right shoulder across his back and under his left arm. In both hands he holds a lilac-coloured wicker basket filled with blue and yellow flowers and leaves. The tree trunk and bocage are coloured naturalistically and there is a blue and yellow applied flower on the branch next to the boy’s right side.
History note: Sotheby's, 12 June 1906, part of lot 256; bought by S.G. Fenton on behalf of Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 12 cm
5.7
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Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
First quarter of 19th century
Production date:
circa
AD 1820
In Rackham's 1935 Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection the figure was attributed probably to Enoch Wood after the end of his partnership with James Caldwell in 1818.
Decoration
composed of
enamel
( greyish-blue, two shades of green, yellow flesh pink, pale orange, red, lilac, greyish-brown, and dark brown)
Surface
composed of
lead-glaze
Base
Depth 4.2 cm
Width 4.2 cm
Parts
Moulding : White earthenware, moulded, and hand modelled in parts, assembled before firing, covered with slightly blue tinted lead-glaze and painted in greyish-blue, two shades of green, yellow flesh pink, pale orange, red, lilac, greyish-brown, and dark brown enamels; the glazed underside of the base has sloping sides and a central ventilation hole
Inscription present: part of a rectangular white stick on label with blue lines on the left, top, and right edges and plant motif in upper corners
Accession number: C.919-1928
Primary reference Number: 76362
Old object number: 2432
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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