1592984324000 1312637261000 Standard Record object-76468 1752602737301 1714400630000 1752602690710 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-76468 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/76468 08ba6821-9e09-3951-a3db-71950907a2d2 6 reference agent-196358 adlib-agent-196358 67796083-0aa0-3cdb-b190-4f6655ac284f Medici reference agent-196359 adlib-agent-196359 5f638a60-7e8c-3ecb-8b63-bd92969bb089 Vacca, Flaminio reference term-108657 adlib-term-108657 c170cd8e-fc63-3446-81a4-6682b5979808 lead-glazed earthenware reference term-113184 adlib-term-113184 25fc548d-d02f-39a6-a34f-d609393a0043 J. W. L. Glaisher reference term-107563 adlib-term-107563 38dcd825-1de1-3222-82c6-15a95729b5ff enamels reference term-107733 adlib-term-107733 00160189-e3ce-3796-a88b-5aa8d6c808c4 lead-glaze 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 Applied Arts Earthenware figure, moulded with modelled additions, lead glazed and painted with polychrome enamels. Large animal figure of a lion, with left foot raised on a ball and open mouth with protruding tongue, standing on a rectangular table base. The tail tip and mane are modeled to suggest thick fur and coloured grey brown. The lion’s genitals are shown and the underbelly is left unpainted. The rest of the body is mustard yellow, with visible brush marks indicating the pelt. The tongue is red and the mouth and eyes outlined in red. The ball, or globe, is also red. The figure is fully shaped in the round and decorated all over. 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.RORING’ and ‘LION’. The underside is recessed and glazed. C.968-1928 1 accession number C.968-1928 76468 priref 76468 1923 1923 1923 Glaisher MS catalogue, Volume: 22 old object number 4099 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/76468 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/76468 no visible mark underside of base rectangular paper label handwritten in black ink No.4099. Staffordshire lion inscribed in front ‘The Roring Lion’ b. in Cambridge [another word] 1921 (said to have come from Cromer Hall). label reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest, 1928 reference agent-152564 adlib-agent-152564 c20df94d-f096-3e0b-a9b5-6ddd12161fb7 Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr 1928 1928 1928-12-07 bequeathed 1830 CE 1830 circa 1830 probably reference agent-188632 adlib-agent-188632 b379bf0c-f1b7-35d3-89f0-cbc229ee14ff Unidentified Pottery Pearlware figure groups were popular from around 1810, although the earliest examples date from about 1790 They were produced by many small potteries and very few are marked. Classical or literary subjects might be copied from more expensive porcelain examples, but scenes from everyday life and topical events were also increasingly popular. Early figure groups are often complex, with modelled and moulded parts and applied decoration; the backs, though flat, are decorated. But by c.1835 three-part press-moulding had largely taken over, enabling faster and cheaper production for a growing market. The lion is based on a pair which stand at the entrance of the Loggia dei Lanzi in Florence, one a 2nd Century Roman lion and its companion sculpted by Flaminio Vacca in 1594. They were moved from the gardens of the Villa Medici in Rome to Florence in 1789. Small scale reproductions in stone, marble, plaster and bronze were widely circulated and may have been used as a source for earthenware lions, often made in pairs to be placed at opposite ends of a dresser or bookcase. This is one of several Staffordshire lions in the Fitzwilliam collection. The size, base, palette and style of moulding are so similar to a tiger figure in the collection, ‘The Death of Munro’ (C.967-1928), that they are probably by the same maker and perhaps companion pieces. In 1921, Dr Glaisher wrote: ‘these two pieces were in such wonderful condition that I felt obliged to buy them’. The table-base helps to fix the date. Standing on four or six short legs, table-base groups were made from c.1825-35 and have in the past been attributed to Obadaiah Sherratt, of Burslem; however they were probably made by a number of Staffordshire figure makers. reference term-120816 adlib-term-120816 b8c35cb6-f02f-34c9-9dda-b3120e12c749 19th Century, second quarter 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 Depth cm 10.2 Height cm 25.3 Width cm 33.5 reference media-47811 adlib-media-47811 df683b3f-b356-3b25-9976-a0daabec9c80 jpeg aa/aa8/C_968_1928_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 550 width pixels 760 1616281819173 1 image jpeg aa/aa8/mid_C_968_1928_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 362 width pixels 500 1616281819173 1 image jpeg aa/aa8/C_968_1928_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 550 width pixels 760 1616281819173 1 image jpeg aa/aa8/preview_C_968_1928_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 181 width pixels 250 1616281819173 1 image 0 media image reference media-47812 adlib-media-47812 db2a21e1-e8a1-3f57-ba61-5c90fcf11638 jpeg aa/aa8/C_968_1928_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 550 width pixels 760 1616280972903 1 image jpeg aa/aa8/mid_C_968_1928_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 362 width pixels 500 1616280972903 1 image jpeg aa/aa8/C_968_1928_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 550 width pixels 760 1616280972903 1 image jpeg aa/aa8/preview_C_968_1928_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 181 width pixels 250 1616280972903 1 image 1 media image reference term-110277 adlib-term-110277 97f1ad1c-7b1d-373a-b0ae-ed010d95f37b animal figure reference term-134443 adlib-term-134443 1f927ae4-091f-35a9-b59f-e49a35bcf525 Staffordshire figure (early) reference term-134771 adlib-term-134771 d036013d-c212-3077-a51d-d3d4ca195e85 table base figure history note 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 Death of Munro’. Both pieces said to have come from Cromer Hall. 1 companion reference object-76467 adlib-object-76467 0e65e342-8567-3bd9-a38a-4ff6204876f0

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animal figure reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum Publ. Vol. l, p. 126, no. 968 126 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 Publ. p. 151, illustrated 151 reference publication-3515 adlib-publication-3515 755fa945-3863-320a-99ff-c2ed519b1e05 Collecting Staffordshire Pottery Cf. various similar lions based on the Medici examples. 96, 105, 183, 196, 207, 209 reference publication-6492 adlib-publication-6492 8f7a7c8d-d834-39c7-aba5-eddaaff4dd0c English Earthenware Figures 1740-1840 Cf. No. 633, a very similar figure and base, with inscription ‘THE RORAN LION’; p.212-213, no.632, table base Death of Munrow’ group, attributed to ‘Walton school’; also various other lions, including three with paw raised on ball as here. 210,211 reference publication-8241 adlib-publication-8241 e2152b88-8b95-36fd-b290-01f6413e121f Earle Collection of early Staffordshire pottery Cf.a version in soft-paste porcelain, Chelsea, 1750-55 and and examples in flint enamel-glazed earthenware, attributed Daniel Greatbach, Vermont, USA, 1953-58. plates 54-56 reference publication-400002021 adlib-publication-400002021 7f3f7a61-e1a9-3b05-aefe-8100fe0c32bc Animals in Pottery & Porcelain Another lion based on the same source, also in the Fitzwilliam collection. 68 reference publication-992 adlib-publication-992 e26b9de8-5607-3d6e-82c1-bba7d8cb57c4 Plagiarism Personified? European Pottery and Porcelain Figures Cf. similar lion, L18.2cm (12 ¾ “), c.1830, Estimate $8-12,000. 14,17,18 reference publication-8406 adlib-publication-8406 c594bd2b-fb58-3de1-8834-28d5f379041b English Furniture Ceramics and Decoration, 20-21 October 2003 Cf. no.53, figs 126-127, Medici lions. 247-50 reference publication-1011 adlib-publication-1011 54288e89-05e0-314d-85eb-26ce8d49ea82 Taste and the Antique. The Lure of Classical Sculpture 1500-1900 reference term-9044 adlib-term-9044 99dcb503-1a64-3792-8a40-48eda95dd763 Neoclassical animal reference term-106353 adlib-term-106353 94dbf2d1-80ce-352d-b3db-fd957b2fd428 lion literal lion lion

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