IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 76398 accession number: C.931-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Friday 15 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: White earthenware, press-moulded, lead-glazed, and painted in blue, green, yellow, flesh pink, greyish- pink, red, purple, reddish-brown, pale brown and dark brown enamels. The figure is supported on a shallow square base with a fluted border round its upper part and a flat top decorated with a flower in each corner. The underside of the base is hollow and glazed, and has a ventilation hole in the middle. The winged genius stands on a circular pink plinth. He faces to the front with his feet slightly apart, his left arm hanging down by his side and his right arm cradling a brown torch ? (upper part missing). On top of his head is a bowl-shaped candle socket with a scalloped edge. He has shoulder-length pale pinkish-brown hair, and is nude apart from a white drape decorated with red and blue sprigs and black circles, and lined with yellow, which crosses his body at the front, and hangs down to the ground at the back. His wings are purple. The candle socket is decorated with vertical green pointed leaves and has a red feathered edging. The base has two reddish-brown lines running round its lower part, green fluting, and another reddish-brown line above. Two of the flowers on its top are white and two red with yellow centres. object type: lead-glazed earthenware painted in enamels title: candlestick NOTES ----- type: history note value: Puttick & Simpson, London, 2 March1909, part of lot 124; bought by Mr S. Fenton on behalf of 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/76398 PEOPLE ------------------- winged genius TECHNIQUES ---------- press-moulding CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware category: enamel painted figures DATING ------ creation date: 1800 - 1825 creation date earliest: 1800 creation date latest: 1825 culture: first quarter of 19th century culture: George III or George IV CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified Staffordshire factory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 24.1 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge The Earle Collection of Early Staffordshire Pottery --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_931_1928_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/mid_C_931_1928_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_931_1928_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/preview_C_931_1928_281_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_931_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/mid_C_931_1928_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_931_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/preview_C_931_1928_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_931_1928_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/mid_C_931_1928_283_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_931_1928_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/preview_C_931_1928_283_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels