IDENTIFIERS
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id:	76409
accession number:	C.936A-1928

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Wednesday 15 July 2020

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Staffordshire figure representing Comedy, standing on an oval base. A woman stands 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 red cloak draped over her left shoulder. The shield is yellow and decorated with a satyr mask, 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 moulded and painted. The underside is recessed and glazed, with a central vent hole.
object type: Earthenware figure, moulded and modelled, pearl-ware glazed and painted with polychrome enamels.
title:	figure

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Bought as a pair from Mr. Wordingham of Cambridge on 8 August 1925, for £4, by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, Trinity College, Cambridge. Mr Wordingham had bought them at Wisbech.


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
collection:	J. W. L. Glaisher
creditline: Dr J.W.L.Glaisher Bequest, 1928

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/76409

PEOPLE
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Comedy
Tragedy

SUBJECTS
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theatre



TECHNIQUES
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Earthenware, moulded with applied modelled parts, lead glazed and painted with enamels.
moulding

CATEGORIES
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category: lead-glazed earthenware

DATING
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creation date:	1810 - 1820
creation date earliest:	1810
creation date latest:	1820
culture:	19th Century, Early#

CREATORS
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maker: Unidentified factory

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 14.6

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 10.5



CITATIONS
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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
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