IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 76450 accession number: C.958-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 29 April 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Earthenware group of a dandy and his lady seated on a bench, with bocage. His left arm is around her shoulder and with his left he is offering something to her (now broken off, possibly flowers?). She carries a brown reticule in her left hand and wears a large yellow hat, a blue blouse or jacket and a white skirt. The hat is decorated with big pink feathers, her skirt with multicoloured dots and stylised flowers and her blouse with yellow epaulettes. She has a yellow bow at her neck. The gentleman has a black top hat and wears a black coat over a frilled shirt with stock and high collar, and yellow trousers. Both wear black shoes. They sit on a moulded yellow bench in front of a stylised tree which has blue and red flowers. Beside him is a brown urn with a three-leaved plant. A small dog (?) to her left has broken off. The scene is placed on a raised oval base which has a flat top and, at the front, a relief moulded panel of red, pink and yellow feathers between scrolling foliage; the foliage and top of the panel are edged in blue; the rest of the base is painted grass green. The back is fully decorated. The underside is flat, within a deep rim which forms the sides of the base. object type: Earthenware figure group, modelled with moulded parts, pearlware glazed and painted with polychrome enamels. title: figure group 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/76450 PEOPLE ------------------- Reynolds, Captain SUBJECTS ------------------- courtship courtship CATEGORIES ------ category: earthenware category: lead-glazed earthenware category: pearlware DATING ------ creation date: 1820 - 1825 creation date earliest: 1820 creation date latest: 1825 culture: 19th Century, Early CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified factory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 19 dimension: Width units: cm value: 21 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge English Earthenware Figures 1740-1840 Staffordshire Chimney Ornaments People, Passions, Pastimes, and Pleasures, Staffordshire Figures 1810-1835 Earle Collection of early Staffordshire pottery Fitzwilliam Museum Handbooks, English Pottery --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_958_1928_281_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/mid_C_958_1928_281_29.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_958_1928_281_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/preview_C_958_1928_281_29.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_958_1928_282_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/mid_C_958_1928_282_29.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_958_1928_282_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/preview_C_958_1928_282_29.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels