IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 76430 accession number: C.949-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Wednesday 15 July 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Animal figure group representing the Royal Arms. In the centre is a spill vase formed from a grey-green column surmounted by a red and gold crown. On the front of the column is the Royal shield, inscribed ‘HOMI [sic] . SOIT . QUI . MAL . Y. PENSE’, above a rose and thistle. It is supported by the lion and the unicorn, each on its hind legs and standing on a scrolling ribbon inscribed ‘DIEU ET MON DROIT’. The inscriptions are incised and coloured black. The group is brightly coloured with enamels over a blue-tinged glaze and stands on a green kidney-shaped cushion. A shallow rectangular base is coloured to imitate marble. The underside is recessed and glazed. On the back, ‘WALTON’ is impressed on a scroll. object type: Earthenware spill vase. moulded and modelled, lead glazed and painted with polychrome enamels. title: spill vase NOTES ----- type: history note value: Captain Reynolds Collection, London, sold to Messrs Gill and Reigate. Bought by Mr Stoner, London, from whom purchased in 1910 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, Trinity College, Cambridge. Dr Glaisher paid £125 for this and fourteen other pieces, as part of a purchase of 35 figures and figure groups. 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, 1928 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/76430 PEOPLE ------------------- George IV (1820-30) William IV (1830-37) SUBJECTS ------------------- lion unicorn lion unicorn TECHNIQUES ---------- Earthenware, moulded and modelled, lead glazed and painted with enamels. moulded CATEGORIES ------ category: earthenware category: lead-glazed earthenware DATING ------ creation date: 1820 - 1830 creation date earliest: 1820 creation date latest: 1830 culture: 19th Century, Early# CREATORS -------- maker: John Walton maker: Walton, John DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 15.2 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge English Earthenware Figures 1740-1840 Staffordshire Chimney Ornaments Staffordshire Potters 1781-1900. A Comprehensive List Assembled from all known Contemporary Directories with Selected Marks Staffordshire Figures 1780-1840, Volume 2: Equestrians, Entertainers, Personalities, Biblical Figures & Sportsmen, People, Passions, Pastimes, and Pleasures, Staffordshire Figures 1810-1835 Fine British Pottery and Porcelain, 18 May 2011 Plagiarism Personified? European Pottery and Porcelain Figures --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_949_1928_281_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/mid_C_949_1928_281_29.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_949_1928_281_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/preview_C_949_1928_281_29.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_949_1928_282_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/mid_C_949_1928_282_29.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_949_1928_282_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/preview_C_949_1928_282_29.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels