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Vase with figures and animals: C.926A -1928

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Current Location: In storage

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Vase with figures and animals

Maker(s)

Production: uncertain

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Description

Lead-glazed earthenware painted in polychrome enamels; a two-vase on a high pedestal flanked by figures of a boy and girl, with a dog and five recumbent lambs on the base

White earthenware, press-moulded, covered with strongly blue-tinted lead-glaze, and painted in blue, turquoise-green, orange, flesh pink, puce pink, lilac, dark brown, grey and black enamels; the glazed underside is open up to the base of the vase. The roughly oval base has an undulating surface and is coloured turquoise-green. Five pale grey lambs of different sizes recline across the front.. The base rises up in the middle and has a projecting ledge on which is a reclining black dog. Behind it is the stepped base of a tall pedestal which supports the vase, and has on the front a rectangular panel decorated with a putto holding a palm. The edges of the two steps and the edges of the pedestal are outlined in dark brown. A grey-haired girl wearing a low-necked long lilac gown with a turquoise edging and orange belt, stands on the left of the pedestal, and on the right is a grey-haired nude boy partly covered by a blue and puce drape. Their inside arms rest on the back of the fluted circular foot of the vase. Its upper part is of a flattened and shaped oval form with two strap handles rising above the wavy rim, Its lower part has bats' wing fluting picked out in blue; above, on each side are two garlands of puce flowers and foliage suspended from a raised blue band around the shoulder. ;and the area below the rim has border of blue striations. The edges of the handle and its leaf terminals are outlined in blue. A pair with C.926B-1928

Notes

History note: Mr Stewart Acton, Brighton, from whom bought for £35 on 22 April 1918 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge

Legal notes

Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest

Measurements and weight

Height: 31 cm

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr

Dating

Late 18th century
George III
Circa 1790 - 1800

Note

Possibly made in the factory of Robert Wilson, successor of Neale & Co. in Hanley, or Ralph or Enoch Wood in Burslem

School or Style

Neoclassical

People, subjects and objects depicted

Components of the work

Decoration composed of enamel ( blue, turquoise-green, orange, flesh pink, puce pink, lilac, dark brown, grey and black)
Surface composed of lead-glaze ( strongly blue tinted)
Base Depth 12.6 cm Width 18.5 cm

Materials used in production

white Earthenware

Techniques used in production

Press-moulding : White earthenware, press-moulded in parts, assembled, covered with blue-tinted lead-glaze (pearl or china glaze), and painted in blue, turquoise-green, orange, flesh pink, puce pink, lilac, dark brown, grey and black enamels; the underside is open up to the base of the vase, and glazed

Inscription or legends present

Inscription present: circular white paper stick on label printed with a black line round the edge and the wording printed within it ; the number hand writtenacross the middle

  • Text: J.W.L. GLAISHER./COLLECTION printed 4603a hand written
  • Location: On interior of base
  • Method of creation: Printed in black and hand written in black ink
  • Type: Label

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Identification numbers

Accession number: C.926A -1928
Primary reference Number: 76393
Old object number: 4603
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Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Tuesday 22 August 2023 Last processed: Wednesday 13 December 2023

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts

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