IDENTIFIERS
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id:	76467
accession number:	C.967-1928

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Saturday 3 June 2023

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Large animal figure group of a tiger holding the head of a lifeless soldier in its mouth, standing on a rectangular table base.  The tiger is yellow with dark vertical markings; a dark stripe along its back runs down the face, which is framed by prominent white whiskers. The soldier has a red uniform, yellow breeches and epaulettes, white stockings and black boots, and wears a pink sash around his waist; his right arm falls down across his body. The base is a grass green rectangular plinth supported on a grey sponged table base which has six feet, a moulded polychrome swag frieze and on the front two raised ovals with the impressed inscription ‘THE.DEATH’ and ‘OF.MUNROW’. The underside is recessed and glazed.
object type: Earthenware figure group, moulded with modelled additions, lead glazed and painted with polychrome enamels.
title:	figure group

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Bought from Mr Wordingham, Cambridge dealer, on 3 April 1921, by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge. £15 paid for this and a companion piece ‘The Roring Lion’. Both pieces said to have come from Cromer Hall.


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/76467

PEOPLE
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Munro, Hugh

SUBJECTS
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India
Tipoo's Tiger
Tiger
soldiers
Tiger
soldiers



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

DATING
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creation date:	1825 - 1835
creation date earliest:	1825
creation date latest:	1835
culture:	19th Century, second quarter#

CREATORS
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maker: Unidentified factory

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 27.5



CITATIONS
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Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge
English Earthenware Figures 1740-1840
Earle Collection of early Staffordshire pottery
Collecting Staffordshire Pottery
Property from the Collection of Josephine & Walter Buhl Ford II
T Sutton Collection, 25 May 2005
Collection of the English Country House, 7 April 2004
Staffordshire Figures, 10 October 1989
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