IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 76392 accession number: C.925-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 9 September 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Pale cream earthenware, press-moulded, covered with blue tinted lead-glaze, and painted in blue, green, yellow, red, reddish-brown, yellowish-brown, and brown enamels. The model is supported on a shallow rectangular base with straight sides, which is decorated with a red line on the outer edge, and has the name LUCRETIA impressed at centre front. The underside is open and covered with strongly blue-tinted glaze. Lucretia, nude except for a yellowish-brown kerchief wrapped round her head, reclines elegantly on a couch on her right hip with her legs extended and bent at the knee, her upper body facing downwards, her right arm raised and bent, and her face resting on a yellow cushion at the raised left end of the couch, which is decorated on its lower edge with volutes and has a projecting male mask on the upper edge at the front. It is partly covered by a flowered drape which extends over the couch under Lucretia. object type: earthenware with blue-tinted lead-glaze painted in enamels. A nude woman reclining face downwards on a couch, the base titled LUCRETIA title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Captain Reynolds collection; sold en bloc to Messrs Gill & Reigate; one of thirty-five pieces bought from them by Mr George Stoner; bought from him for £6.10s. 0d. on 8 June 1910 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/76392 PEOPLE ------------------- Reynolds, Captain Lucretia SUBJECTS ------------------- couch male head couch male head TECHNIQUES ---------- pale cream earthenware, press-moulded in parts, assembled, covered with strongly blue tinted lead-glaze and painted in blue, green, yellow, flesh pink, red, yellowish-brown, and brown enamels. press-moulding CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware category: pearlware category: enamel painted figures DATING ------ creation date: 1790 - 1820 creation date earliest: 1790 creation date latest: 1820 culture: late 18th or early 19th century CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified Staffordshire factory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Depth units: cm value: 9.9 dimension: Height units: cm value: 12.8 dimension: Length units: cm value: 29.3 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge The Earle Collection of Early Staffordshire Pottery Neale Pottery and Porcelain Trading Names --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_925_1928_281_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/mid_C_925_1928_281_29.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_925_1928_281_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/preview_C_925_1928_281_29.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_925_1928_282_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/mid_C_925_1928_282_29.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_925_1928_282_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/preview_C_925_1928_282_29.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels