IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 76455 accession number: C.960-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Wednesday 15 July 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Moulded and modelled earthenware figure group with three figures grouped around an anvil, with tree behind. On the left is the blacksmith, his hands raised together in prayer. The couple, in fashionable dress of the period, stand on the right; the painting of their jackets, his purple and hers blue, is feathered to suggest rich fabrics. Between them, a book is open on top of the anvil. The tree behind has three sprays of purple flowers and holds a yellow shield with banner above, inscribed: ‘IOHN MACDONALD AGED 79 / A SCOTCH / ESQUIRE RUN OF [sic] / WITH A[sic] ENGLISH / GIRL AGED 17 TO / GRATNAL[sic] GREEN TO / THE OLD BLACKSMITH / TO BE MARRIED’. The group stands on a green mound which is decorated with green ‘parsley’, above a rectangular white base with a double chocolate line around the sides. The back is flattened, but shaped and painted. The underside of the base is recessed and glazed, with a central vent hole. object type: Earthenware figure group, moulded and modelled, lead glazed and painted with polychrome enamels. title: figure group NOTES ----- type: history note value: Bought at Sotheby’s on 19 February 1912, Lot 129, for £1.14s (one pound fourteen shillings) to Mr Button. Sold on 29 February 1912, for £2, to 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/76455 PEOPLE ------------------- blacksmith SUBJECTS ------------------- marriage Gretna Green anvil anvil CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware DATING ------ creation date: 1810 - 1825 creation date earliest: 1810 creation date latest: 1825 culture: 19th Century, Early# CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified factory maker: John Walton DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Depth units: cm value: 8 dimension: Height units: cm value: 20.3 dimension: Width units: cm value: 11.5 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 Gentleman's Magazine --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_960_1928_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/mid_C_960_1928_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_960_1928_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/preview_C_960_1928_281_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_960_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/mid_C_960_1928_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_960_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/preview_C_960_1928_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_960_1928_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/mid_C_960_1928_283_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_960_1928_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/preview_C_960_1928_283_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_960_1928_284_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/mid_C_960_1928_284_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_960_1928_284_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/preview_C_960_1928_284_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels