IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 76416 accession number: C.941-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 23 January 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Cream earthenware, moulded, covered with slightly blue tinted lead-glazed and painted in blue, turquoise, yellowish-green, yellow, flesh-pink, orange, red, lilac, brown, and black enamels. The figures are supported on a rectangular plinth painted in shades of brown and lilac to resemble marble, and having on the front a rectangular label inscribed 'RINALDO & ARMIDA'. Rinaldo, wearing a long lilac tunic with a turquoise lining, and orange sandals, is seated on the ground with his right leg extended and left leg bent. He rests his right elbow on Armida's thigh as she bends her knees to lean over him, placing her left arm around his shoulders, and holding her right over her head to hold a wreath, now missing. She wears a long white robe decorated with scattered sprigs and dots, a pink cloak with a yellowish-green lining, and orange sandals. Both figures have brown hair, healthy complexions and blue eyes. object type: lead-glazed earthenware painted in polychrome enamels title: figure group NOTES ----- type: history note value: Percy Fitzgerald Collection, London; sold Christie's, 24 January 1908, Catalogue of the earthenware collection of Staffordshire ware formed during the past forty years by Percy Fitzgerald Esq., FSA of 37 St George’s Road, S.W., lot 53; bought by Mr Smith; after repair sold for £15 to 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/76416 PEOPLE ------------------- Fitzgerald, Percy Rinaldo Armida TECHNIQUES ---------- moulding CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware category: pearlware category: enamel painted figures DATING ------ creation date: 1791 - 1795 creation date earliest: 1791 creation date latest: 1795 culture: 18th Century, Late# culture: George III CREATORS -------- maker: Lakin & Poole DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 25 dimension: Length units: cm value: 24 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the earthenware collection of Staffordshire ware formed during the past forty years by Percy Fitzgerald Esq., FSA of 37 St George’s Road, S.W. Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge English Earthenware Figures 1740-1840 --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_941_1928_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/mid_C_941_1928_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_941_1928_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/preview_C_941_1928_281_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_941_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/mid_C_941_1928_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_941_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/preview_C_941_1928_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels