IDENTIFIERS
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id:	76456
accession number:	C.961-1928

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Friday 16 May 2025

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Staffordshire figure group representing Wombwell’s Menagerie on the front of a wide spill vase, standing on a blue and white scrolled base. Steps lead up to a stage on which three men are blowing trumpets, one beats a drum and a woman is seated. The stage is framed by yellow and red candy striped columns, with another in the centre, each topped by a lamp, between which red curtains are gathered up. Above is a moulded panel with an elephant, bearing a castle on its back, between two trees; on each tree is a monkey in high relief. Round the panel, on a ribbon, runs the inscription THE . LARGEST . COLLECTION. OF. ANIMALS .WOMBELL’S. IMMENSE. MENAGERIE. OF. WILD. BEATS. ETC. The back is flat, glazed and unpainted. The underside is flat and glazed, with two pad feet at the back corners ; the scrolls form feet at the front.
object type: Earthenware figure group, moulded and modelled, pearlware glazed and painted with polychrome enamels.
title:	figure group

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Captain Reynolds Collection, London; sold to Messrs Gill and Reigate; Mr Stoner, London, from whom purchased in 1910 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, 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
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
collection:	J. W. L. Glaisher
creditline: Dr J.W L. Glaisher Bequest

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/76456

PEOPLE
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Wombwell, George

SUBJECTS
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menagerie
circus
lion
elephant
monkey
music



TECHNIQUES
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earthenware, moulded and modelled, lead-glazed and painted with enamels.
moulding

CATEGORIES
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category: lead-glazed earthenware
category: pearlware

DATING
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creation date:	1830 - 1835
creation date earliest:	1830
creation date latest:	1835
culture:	19th Century, first half

CREATORS
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maker: Unidentified Pottery

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 21.5

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 17.7



CITATIONS
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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
Apollo
Plagiarism Personified? European Pottery and Porcelain Figures
Elephants, Education and Entertainment. Touring menageries in nineteenth century Britain
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