IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 76409 accession number: C.936A-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 29 April 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Lead-glazed earthenware, press-moulded and painted in blue, two shades of green, yellow, pale flesh pink, dark puce, red, and black enamels. A woman representing Comedy stands on an oval base beside a pedestal and holds a circular shield in her left hand and a mirror in her right. She wears a long, flowing, short-sleeved, green gown and a dark puce pink cloak draped over her left shoulder. The shield is yellow and decorated with a satyr 'smask, the pedestal is red-brown. The base is a pointed oval mound, moulded in relief with flowers and painted in green, blue and red. The back of the figure is flattened, but fully detailed and painted. The underside is recessed and glazed, with a central ventilation hole. object type: Lead-glazed earthenware figure of Comedy painted with polychrome enamels. title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: An unidentified owner in Wisbech who sold them to Mr Wordingham of Cambridge; bought with a pair (C.936B-1928) from Mr Wordingham on 8 August 1925, for £4, by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, 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, 1928 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/76409 PEOPLE ------------------- Comedy SUBJECTS ------------------- theatre shield shield TECHNIQUES ---------- Earthenware, moulded with applied modelled parts, lead glazed and painted with enamels. moulding CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware category: enamel painted figures DATING ------ creation date: 1810 - 1820 creation date earliest: 1810 creation date latest: 1820 culture: 19th Century, Early CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified factory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 14.6 dimension: Width units: cm value: 10.5 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge English Earthenware Figures 1740-1840 People, Passions, Pastimes, and Pleasures, Staffordshire Figures 1810-1835 Staffordshire Chimney Ornaments Plagiarism Personified? European Pottery and Porcelain Figures Fitzwilliam Museum Handbooks, English Pottery --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_936A_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_936A_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_936A_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_936A_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_936A_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_936A_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_936A_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_936A_1928_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels