1592991048000 1312637261000 Standard Record object-76448 1752602737874 1711380168000 1752602690710 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-76448 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/76448 abe6a992-debc-33f3-b5e7-3d1728b29907 6 person reference agent-156618 adlib-agent-156618 ddf6b998-69b2-3752-8f12-8318740b4f82 Abraham person reference agent-151716 adlib-agent-151716 044afffe-6ac0-3682-a115-d4b226beaa91 Isaac person reference agent-149975 adlib-agent-149975 e6f5b711-54e0-351d-a83c-758cad4cba19 angel reference term-108657 adlib-term-108657 c170cd8e-fc63-3446-81a4-6682b5979808 lead-glazed earthenware reference term-113184 adlib-term-113184 25fc548d-d02f-39a6-a34f-d609393a0043 J. W. L. Glaisher reference term-107563 adlib-term-107563 38dcd825-1de1-3222-82c6-15a95729b5ff enamels reference term-107733 adlib-term-107733 00160189-e3ce-3796-a88b-5aa8d6c808c4 lead-glaze Decoration reference term-106226 adlib-term-106226 194567f2-2bcd-3446-ae31-652386611815 painting reference term-122641 adlib-term-122641 d5fb75d8-097d-3fd7-8e70-87e9d96d77f7 glazing Depth cm 12.5 Width cm 18.5 Base Parts reference term-121246 adlib-term-121246 cd0cb1a4-68fa-396e-a2f5-856490890cd3 modelling reference term-23385 adlib-term-23385 4c17df77-7d4e-32bf-8ec9-921b71d218a2 religion Applied Arts Earthenware, moulded and modelled, lead glazed and painted with polychrome enamels. 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. C.956-1928 1 accession number C.956-1928 76448 priref 76448 1910 1910 1910 Glaisher MS catalogue, Volume: 10 old object number 3180 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/76448 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/76448 no visible mark banner on front of base incised ‘ABRAHAM OFFERING HIS SON ISAAC’ title underside of base rectangular paper label handwritten in black ink No.3180. Staffordshire group of Abraham sacrificing Isaac b. in Cambridge Jan 27 1910. label reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest, 1928 reference agent-152564 adlib-agent-152564 c20df94d-f096-3e0b-a9b5-6ddd12161fb7 Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr 1928 1928 1928 bequeathed Entry date: 1928-12-07 1825 1825 CE 1825 circa 1825 1830 1 1830 CE 1830 circa 1830 production reference agent-187914 adlib-agent-187914 3ff8e302-3ac3-3560-9a60-800ee4445118 Unidentified factory possibly reference agent-195232 adlib-agent-195232 27d6bfe3-4604-3c91-9349-d5c8b5a2ff4e John Walton Bocage figure groups, which feature stylised leafy trees, are often associated with John Walton of Burslem, who is listed in local directories from c.1818-1835. Although Rackham, 1935, suggests this attribution, the distinctive base here does not seem typical and we now know that several potters made figure groups in this style, often copying designs and other features. Dr Glaisher bought this figure because it was and ‘so extraordinary that the angel should not have been broken off’ and ‘a striking piece [… ] a good specimen of its kind’. However, he also felt ‘colouring is bright but crude and disagreeable and modelling is poor’. Earthenware figure groups were popular from around 1810, although the earliest examples date from nearly a century before. They were produced by many small potteries and very few are marked. Classical or literary subjects might be copied from more expensive porcelain examples, but scenes from everyday life and topical events were also increasingly popular. These early figure groups are often complex, with modelled and moulded parts and applied decoration; the backs, though flat, are decorated. As demand increased, processes were streamlined to allow cheaper mass production and by the mid 1830s the earlier methods had largely given way to three-part press-moulding. The modelling and colours of this group suggest it dates from towards the end of the earlier period. The Bible tells that God tested Abraham’s faith by asking him to sacrifice his son. Abraham bound Isaac and raised his knife to kill him. When God saw Abraham had obeyed, He sent an angel to tell him to stop and a ram to sacrifice instead (ref. Genesis 21). reference term-123484 adlib-term-123484 2b62f859-fe7f-3226-b539-851ef4bc07ad 19th Century, Early reference term-108171 adlib-term-108171 c943fe08-bd72-32ab-823c-e1eeb56717b3 literal England England country literal Staffordshire Staffordshire region Burslem reference term-107611 adlib-term-107611 790e5a19-a186-34d5-a16e-2d8dff9f6247 white earthenware Height cm 37.4 reference media-47761 adlib-media-47761 b15e5387-f41e-3b23-a0a2-8a5e6ddce965 jpeg aa/aa8/C_956_1928_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 740 width pixels 570 1616272906695 1 image jpeg aa/aa8/mid_C_956_1928_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 649 width pixels 500 1616272906695 1 image jpeg aa/aa8/C_956_1928_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 740 width pixels 570 1616272906695 1 image jpeg aa/aa8/preview_C_956_1928_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 325 width pixels 250 1616272906695 1 image 0 media image reference media-47762 adlib-media-47762 14542862-ee1e-346a-a492-d2147065e301 jpeg aa/aa8/C_956_1928_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 740 width pixels 570 1616242079018 1 image jpeg aa/aa8/mid_C_956_1928_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 649 width pixels 500 1616242079018 1 image jpeg aa/aa8/C_956_1928_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 740 width pixels 570 1616242079018 1 image jpeg aa/aa8/preview_C_956_1928_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 325 width pixels 250 1616242079018 1 image 1 media image reference term-110220 adlib-term-110220 e22d3544-a393-3f19-9be4-dc2632ca9942 figure group reference term-134396 adlib-term-134396 238a8c79-c8ce-3ed9-9d80-3a938ba82083 Staffordshire figure group (early) history note 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. 1 reference object-76469 adlib-object-76469 db288b0f-2680-3f1a-bcbb-0b6970052606

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figure group reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum Publ. Vol. l, p. 125, no. 956 125 reference publication-1031 adlib-publication-1031 a5cc6cb3-2b6f-390a-af51-7e9d123e55ed Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Cf. Plate 65. A similarly composed group, with similar base and label but without background bocage or angel, in Stoke-on-Trent City Art Gallery, dated c.1825-30. Similarities suggest this was made by the same maker; differences demonstrate how these groups were built up from separately moulded and modeled pieces and hand-painted. See also Chapter 6 re bocage figures. 215, 228 reference publication-6492 adlib-publication-6492 8f7a7c8d-d834-39c7-aba5-eddaaff4dd0c English Earthenware Figures 1740-1840 reference publication-5796 adlib-publication-5796 f53034c1-658f-3808-ae92-bf4b4c428367 People, Passions, Pastimes, and Pleasures, Staffordshire Figures 1810-1835 reference publication-7215 adlib-publication-7215 5a432fe5-59b0-3aa3-80ff-60e8c20dd302 Staffordshire Chimney Ornaments reference publication-992 adlib-publication-992 e26b9de8-5607-3d6e-82c1-bba7d8cb57c4 Plagiarism Personified? European Pottery and Porcelain Figures reference term-107504 adlib-term-107504 b1c9e842-d4c0-3384-875c-ea2a5a0dec0e sacrifice reference term-23385 adlib-term-23385 4c17df77-7d4e-32bf-8ec9-921b71d218a2 religion

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