IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 76423 accession number: C.943-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Friday 15 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: White earthenware, moulded, covered with very slightly blue-tinted glaze, and painted in blue, green, turquoise, yellow, flesh-pink, red, brown, and black enamels. The figure is supported on a square straight-sided base, painted in pale blue, yellow and brown to resemble marble, and having on the front a rectangular label inscribed 'ARIADNE'. Its underside is hollow and glazed, and has a ventilation under the figure, and another under the column. Ariadne stands holding with both hands a two-handled basin resting on top of a cylindrical column entwined with a vine. She has pink cheeks, blue eyes, and brown hair dressed in a curly chignon on the back of her head with tresses hanging down from it onto her shoulders. She wears an off the shoulder long white robe scattered with floral sprigs and blue spots, and has a turquoise cloak with a pink lining held on by a blue strap across the front of her body. The bowl has a blue edge and blue dots on its handles, and the vine on the column is painted naturalistically in brown and green. object type: lead-glazed earthenware painted in polychrome enamels title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Whitely Tolson Collection; sold Sotheby's 4 June 1920, English pottery from the Whitely Tolson collection, lot 264; bought for £11 11s.0d. by 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/76423 PEOPLE ------------------- Tolson, Whitely Ariadne SUBJECTS ------------------- basin basin TECHNIQUES ---------- white earthenware, moulded, covered with slightly blue tinted lead-glaze and painted in blue, green, turquoise, yellow, flesh-pink, red, brown, and black enamels; the underside of the base is glazed and has two circular ventilation holes under the figure and the column moulding CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware category: pearlware category: enamel painted figures DATING ------ creation date: 1795 - 1795 creation date earliest: 1795 creation date latest: 1795 culture: 18th Century, Late# culture: George III CREATORS -------- maker: Lakin & Poole DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Depth units: cm value: 12.6 dimension: Height units: cm value: 30.6 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge 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