IDENTIFIERS
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id:	76411
accession number:	C.937-1928

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Friday 15 December 2023

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Staffordshire figure representing Tragedy, standing on an oval base. A woman stands beside a tombstone: she holds a dagger in her right hand and a cup in her left. She wears a long, flowing, sleeveless, purple gown and a white cloak draped over her right shoulder. The tombstone is yellow and inscribed ‘Memento’ [for ‘memento mori’]. The base is a pointed oval mound, painted in green, blue and red and with ‘TRAGEDY’ inscribed in black impressed letters at the front. 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: Sotheby’s, 12 March 1909, lot no. 187; bought for £1.7s 0d. (one pound seven shillings) by Mr S. Fenton for Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, Trinity College, Cambridge.


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/76411

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#
culture:	George III

CREATORS
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maker: Unidentified factory

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 15.2

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 10



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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