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Ganymede
Production: Lakin & Poole
Lead-glazed earthenware painted in enamels
White earthenware, moulded, covered with very slightly blue tinted lead glaze and painted green, yellow, yellow-ochre, flesh-pink, pale pink, several shades of brown, and black enamels. The figures are supported on a square straight-sided base which is concave underneath, and has two ventilation holes on the left near the back. Ganymede stands beside a tall tree stump on the viewer's left. The eagle stands in front ot it, and looks up towards him. He holds out a drinking bowl in his left hand and rests his right arm on the top of the tree stump. He has brown hair, and wears a greenish-yellow Phrygian cap, a short pink tunic and a short pink cloak with a yellow lining, the end of which is draped over the top of the tree stump. The eagle is painted naturalistically in shades of brown with a black beak and yellow legs; the tree stump is dappled in green and brown, and the base is marbled in shades of yellow ochre and brown with darker brown veining.
History note: Captain Reynolds, Tiptree, Kelveden, Essex; sold to Gill & Reigate, 85 Oxford Street, London, from whom bought on 8 June, 1910 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 33.4 cm
Width: 13.9 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, Late#
George III
Circa
1791
-
1795
The figure portrays Ganymede in his role as cup bearer of the Gods.
Thomas Lakin and John Ellison Poole entered into partnership in 1791, and in 1795 were joined by Poole's brother-in-law, Thomas Shrigley. Thomas Lakin withdrew from the partnership in January 1796 and a year later the other partners were declared bankrupt. During the short period of operation their factory made some exceptionally well-modelled and decorated figures, many of which stood on marbled bases.
Decoration
composed of
enamels
( green, yellow, yellow ochre, flesh pink, pink, several shades of brown, and black)
Surface
composed of
lead-glaze
( slightly blue tinted, 'pearl' glaze)
Base
Depth 10 cm
Width 10.2 cm
Inscription present: rectangular white paper stick on label with a narrow blueline edging and plant motifs in top corners
Accession number: C.942-1928
Primary reference Number: 76422
Old object number: 3116
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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