IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 76448 accession number: C.956-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 25 March 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Press moulded earthenware figure group with modelled and applied additions. Abraham stands in front of a tree, his right hand held high and holding a knife. Isaac is laid, bound, on a brick altar to his left. There is an angel in a tree behind, his gown swirling above his head as if he has just arrived. In front of Abraham is a burning lamp and by his right foot a small ram, across the brown earth in front ‘ABRAHAM OFFERING HIS SON ISAAC’ is incised on a white ribbon. Abraham wears a green gown, with brown spots, under a long yellow waistcoat decorated with dots and crosses and a flowing brown jacket which lifts under his raised arm to display its blue lining; his figure dominates the group. The scene is set on a high moulded plinth which is decorated with applied floral decoration above a blue band. The back is flattened, but shaped and painted. The underside is deeply recessed, with a central vent hole. object type: Earthenware, moulded and modelled, lead glazed and painted with polychrome enamels. title: figure group NOTES ----- type: history note value: Bought at a sale in Saffron Walden by Mr Jolley, Bridge Street, Cambridge. Bought from Mr Jolley on 27 January 1910, for £2. 10s (two pounds ten shillings), by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, 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, 1928 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/76448 PEOPLE ------------------- Abraham Isaac angel SUBJECTS ------------------- sacrifice religion TECHNIQUES ---------- Earthenware, moulded and modelled, lead glazed and painted with enamels. moulding CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware DATING ------ creation date: 1825 - 1830 creation date earliest: 1825 creation date latest: 1830 culture: 19th Century, Early CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified factory maker: John Walton DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 37.4 CITATIONS -------- 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 --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_956_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_956_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_956_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_956_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_956_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_956_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_956_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_956_1928_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels