1592984324000 1312637261000 Standard Record object-76456 1752602742271 1747396033000 1752602690710 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-76456 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/76456 bc3e93ac-fe41-3f65-93aa-3e5fab7b0448 8 reference agent-194001 adlib-agent-194001 36bf9c89-17a5-3816-8378-4ead8e3f7d59 Wombwell, George reference term-108657 adlib-term-108657 c170cd8e-fc63-3446-81a4-6682b5979808 lead-glazed earthenware reference term-42858 adlib-term-42858 28dd1a37-f2da-31c5-a8b7-684957070a75 pearlware reference term-113184 adlib-term-113184 25fc548d-d02f-39a6-a34f-d609393a0043 J. W. L. Glaisher pearlware reference term-107733 adlib-term-107733 00160189-e3ce-3796-a88b-5aa8d6c808c4 lead-glaze polychrome reference term-107563 adlib-term-107563 38dcd825-1de1-3222-82c6-15a95729b5ff enamels 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 Parts reference term-121246 adlib-term-121246 cd0cb1a4-68fa-396e-a2f5-856490890cd3 modelling reference term-24306 adlib-term-24306 baea8705-187b-3229-a6f9-73c5ef1a1de4 entertaining reference term-106220 adlib-term-106220 3040e455-d79a-3371-92d7-002ae1cea70a animals Applied Arts Earthenware figure group, moulded and modelled, pearlware glazed and painted with polychrome enamels. 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. C.961-1928 1 accession number C.961-1928 76456 priref 76456 1923 1923 1923 Glaisher MS catalogue, Volume: 11 old object number 3202 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/76456 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/76456 reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum Dr J.W L. Glaisher Bequest reference agent-152564 adlib-agent-152564 c20df94d-f096-3e0b-a9b5-6ddd12161fb7 Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr 1928 1928 1928-12-07 bequeathed 1830 1830 CE 1830 circa 1830 1835 1 1835 CE 1835 circa 1835 production reference agent-188632 adlib-agent-188632 b379bf0c-f1b7-35d3-89f0-cbc229ee14ff Unidentified Pottery Earthenware figure groups were popular from around 1810, although the earliest examples date from nearly a century earlier. A cheaper alternative to porcelain figures, they were often produced by small potteries; very few are marked. Classical or literary subjects were frequently copied from porcelain examples, but potters increasingly turned to scenes from everyday life and topical events. Early figure groups are often complex, including modelled and moulded parts, applied decoration and partially decorated backs. As demand increased, processes were streamlined to allow mass production and by c.1835 earlier methods had largely given way to three-part press-moulding. The flat back, relatively simple moulding and fewer modelled parts here suggest an early 1830s date. Pottery models of Wombwell’s and Polito’s Menageries were equally popular, and there are a number of surviving examples. Versions on different table or other bases suggest they were made by several potters and sometimes the figures seem to have been made by different potters and/or moulds shared between potteries, perhaps to save costs. Figures of individual menagerie animals were also common. Travelling menageries were popular in England from the late 18th Century. Exotic animals, such as lions and elephants had previously only been seen in aristocratic collections; now menageries took them out to the general public. From c.1830s, with the addition of animal tamers’ tricks, brass bands and human performers, the shows evolved into what we now know as circus. Stephani Polito bought the Exeter Change Menagerie, already established in London, c.1810. He died in 1814, but Polito’s Menagerie continued until c.1836. George Wombwell started his first menagerie c.1807 and by 1839 Wombwell’s Menagerie included 15 wagons of animals; by 1850 there were three shows touring; the business continued until 1884. There is a stuffed lion from Wombwell’s Menagerie in Saffron Walden Museum. reference term-114523 adlib-term-114523 435b2a3c-ff47-31ed-bed3-17b95d739d0a 19th Century, first half reference term-107658 adlib-term-107658 824d3ecf-92c1-33aa-8d45-2f0239317270 literal England England country literal Staffordshire Staffordshire region Staffordshire reference term-42861 adlib-term-42861 5b368285-f1a8-3dcf-a5b2-637fd3c3956c earthenware Height cm 21.5 Width cm 17.7 reference media-47779 adlib-media-47779 0c434f14-2a8c-322f-af57-aa9e1ab5eb69 jpeg aa/aa8/C_961_1928.jpg 1 height pixels 740 width pixels 570 1616240487665 1 image jpeg aa/aa8/mid_C_961_1928.jpg 1 height pixels 649 width pixels 500 1616240487665 1 image jpeg aa/aa8/C_961_1928.jpg 1 height pixels 740 width pixels 570 1616240487665 1 image jpeg aa/aa8/preview_C_961_1928.jpg 1 height pixels 325 width pixels 250 1616240487665 1 image 0 media image reference media-47780 adlib-media-47780 33c70ea1-5494-3390-a438-a7f29d8ee1ec jpeg aa/aa20/C_961_1928.jpg 1 height pixels 760 width pixels 628 1616248148412 1 image jpeg aa/aa20/mid_C_961_1928.jpg 1 height pixels 605 width pixels 500 1616248148412 1 image jpeg aa/aa20/C_961_1928.jpg 1 height pixels 760 width pixels 628 1616248148412 1 image jpeg aa/aa20/preview_C_961_1928.jpg 1 height pixels 303 width pixels 250 1616248148412 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) reference term-130680 adlib-term-130680 4af9103f-c84b-3698-8764-bdecfcb876ec flat-backed figure group reference term-116876 adlib-term-116876 7d48aadc-47e9-3419-98a2-b9d9a5ea75f7 spill vase history note 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. 1 reference object-76465 adlib-object-76465 0c4fcc1e-49c1-3b1b-ac0e-be26d359489b

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figure group reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum Publ. Vol. l, p. 126, no. 961 126 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. Plates 67-70 and b/w images, various versions of Polito’s and Wombwell’s Menageries, on different bases, c.1825-35. 261-275 reference publication-6492 adlib-publication-6492 8f7a7c8d-d834-39c7-aba5-eddaaff4dd0c English Earthenware Figures 1740-1840 Cf. Polito’s and Wombwell’s Menageries and other relevant images in a Chapter on Staffordshire Figure Menageries which includes quote from Lord Byron’s diary. Also re circus and performing animal figures. 100-115 reference publication-5796 adlib-publication-5796 f53034c1-658f-3808-ae92-bf4b4c428367 People, Passions, Pastimes, and Pleasures, Staffordshire Figures 1810-1835 Cf. Plate 73, Polito’s Menagerie, on a marbled table-base. Notes that Mr & Mrs Polito died 1814 and Mr Wombwell 1850. 92 reference publication-7215 adlib-publication-7215 5a432fe5-59b0-3aa3-80ff-60e8c20dd302 Staffordshire Chimney Ornaments Cf. an eg.sold at Bonhams 1.11.1984, £21,000 Vol. CXXI (Jan 1985), p.74 reference publication-400000012 adlib-publication-400000012 ef152ba7-f27e-3f68-907d-d6b5ef550e37 Apollo reference publication-992 adlib-publication-992 e26b9de8-5607-3d6e-82c1-bba7d8cb57c4 Plagiarism Personified? European Pottery and Porcelain Figures Ref. for menageries. Cf. p. 111, fig. 3, a larger Wombwell's Menagerie in the Victoria and Albert Museum. 103-17 reference publication-200003135 adlib-publication-200003135 74428ebf-9d0f-3cf6-be56-8d84ed5d97c2 Elephants, Education and Entertainment. Touring menageries in nineteenth century Britain reference term-58768 adlib-term-58768 5fb4fd35-4bf9-3223-b21a-5f49e06eaac7 menagerie reference term-106940 adlib-term-106940 9741b873-2411-335d-abf2-2a4af30d9c5d circus reference term-106353 adlib-term-106353 94dbf2d1-80ce-352d-b3db-fd957b2fd428 lion reference term-107031 adlib-term-107031 3ea57a00-0cd5-37b7-9c8d-444febb5ca75 elephant reference term-92145 adlib-term-92145 e3b08aac-6ac6-32d1-bb95-0f77f3dbc2ab monkey reference term-23596 adlib-term-23596 f5fe6ab7-fea6-31d5-8f77-1ad5f40613cc music

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