1592999684000 1312637261000 Standard Record object-76489 1752602696624 1594852345000 1752602690710 adlib fitz-online adlib-object-76489 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/76489 980bc07c-bf81-34a0-84ba-8c710027baaa 5 reference term-108657 adlib-term-108657 c170cd8e-fc63-3446-81a4-6682b5979808 lead-glazed earthenware reference term-42688 adlib-term-42688 4df03958-5ee6-3a50-ada9-491bb6445fdf Art Pottery reference term-113184 adlib-term-113184 25fc548d-d02f-39a6-a34f-d609393a0043 J. W. L. Glaisher clear/yellow or brown reference term-32652 adlib-term-32652 82d8ae3b-f165-395c-ba93-dfa1c282b7be glaze Decoration reference term-122641 adlib-term-122641 d5fb75d8-097d-3fd7-8e70-87e9d96d77f7 glazing reference term-115 adlib-term-115 94d65983-dea2-361b-b187-a968c98ab1d8 Nature Applied Arts Red earthenware covered with brown or clear glaze. Large, modelled figure of a crocodile, its head raised and its tail curled over its back, standing among rushes on an oval base. The animal is covered with applied and incised ‘skin’ and the interior of its open mouth and its teeth realistically modelled. The rushes are suggested by flat strips of clay, which support the body. The base is flat; the underside is flat, rough and unglazed. C.98-1928 1 accession number C.98-1928 76489 priref 76489 1907 1907 1907 Glaisher MS catalogue, volume 4 Old object number 2707 uri https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/76489 https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/76489 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 bequeathed Entry date: 1928-12-07 1875 1875 CE 1875 circa 1875 1905 1 1905 CE 1905 circa 1905 potter reference agent-163445 adlib-agent-163445 0ea027ba-c1d5-37c4-9672-a38845c5e0eb Bingham, Edward pottery reference agent-190491 adlib-agent-190491 b4b8a6c4-919f-3d5f-9b02-af0e0c8addff Castle Hedingham Pottery Dr. Glaisher bought the crocodile, and some twenty other pieces, on two visits to the closed pottery, and one to a London showroom, in July 1907. He describes it as ‘a striking piece and well modelled and different in character from most of Bingham’s work’. He had earlier bought several pieces, including an Essex jug in the Fitzwilliam collection (C.99-1928), from the potter himself in 1896. He notes the best of Bingham’s work as ‘ambitious and characteristic work as regards the design modelling’ and ‘really fine and would do justice to any potter’, but he also records several examples of glazing failures. Edward Bingham (1829- 1914) was the son of a Lambeth potter who mainly produced functional wares. The business moved first to Gestingthorpe, Essex, and then in 1837 to Castle Hedingham. From c.1864 Edward Bingham produced ornamental ware, drawing on mediaeval and Tudor styles and notable for its size and exuberant relief decoration, which often includes modeled animals, birds or faces. He used the local terracotta and, later, clay from Devon. Until the mid 1870s, most Hedingham ware was unglazed, and Bingham supplemented income through various other work, variously as a shoe-maker, teacher, sub-postmaster and ironmonger. The pottery was most successful between c.1875-85, with up to 13 kilns operating, but afterwards trade flagged and in 1901 the business was sold, though it continued to operate as ‘The Essex Art Pottery’ until 1905. Bingham continued to make pots there, and then for a few months in a temporary workshop, before emigrating to join his family in North America in 1906. reference term-15214 adlib-term-15214 744af2c4-a2f2-37ad-bbf4-2cd00e91ed9b Victorian reference term-115403 adlib-term-115403 c1cececa-0779-31c9-a5d1-64287870983d literal England England country literal Essex Essex region Castle Hedingham reference term-121303 adlib-term-121303 ec91b069-9e11-397d-92ad-6ab224992074 red earthenware Length cm 53.2 Length in 21 reference media-47867 adlib-media-47867 5c2d66b6-3738-3a37-a17b-34869b52ea6e jpeg aa/aa4/C_98_1928_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 550 width pixels 760 1616256087340 1 image jpeg aa/aa4/mid_C_98_1928_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 362 width pixels 500 1616256087340 1 image jpeg aa/aa4/C_98_1928_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 550 width pixels 760 1616256087340 1 image jpeg aa/aa4/preview_C_98_1928_281_29.jpg 1 height pixels 181 width pixels 250 1616256087340 1 image 0 media image reference media-47868 adlib-media-47868 0cf3e35e-ba7d-3a17-95f8-20b5b4395156 jpeg aa/aa4/C_98_1928_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 550 width pixels 760 1616240656728 1 image jpeg aa/aa4/mid_C_98_1928_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 362 width pixels 500 1616240656728 1 image jpeg aa/aa4/C_98_1928_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 550 width pixels 760 1616240656728 1 image jpeg aa/aa4/preview_C_98_1928_282_29.jpg 1 height pixels 181 width pixels 250 1616240656728 1 image 1 media image reference media-47869 adlib-media-47869 90dd6c01-dcdd-3313-99fd-4974ad7603b4 jpeg aa/aa4/C_98_1928_283_29.jpg 1 height pixels 550 width pixels 760 1616266506100 1 image jpeg aa/aa4/mid_C_98_1928_283_29.jpg 1 height pixels 362 width pixels 500 1616266506100 1 image jpeg aa/aa4/C_98_1928_283_29.jpg 1 height pixels 550 width pixels 760 1616266506100 1 image jpeg aa/aa4/preview_C_98_1928_283_29.jpg 1 height pixels 181 width pixels 250 1616266506100 1 image 2 media image reference media-47870 adlib-media-47870 a9a8eae6-4b5c-33ec-b945-63f8f8a8b7ca jpeg aa/aa4/C_98_1928_284_29.jpg 1 height pixels 550 width pixels 760 1616271405930 1 image jpeg aa/aa4/mid_C_98_1928_284_29.jpg 1 height pixels 362 width pixels 500 1616271405930 1 image jpeg aa/aa4/C_98_1928_284_29.jpg 1 height pixels 550 width pixels 760 1616271405930 1 image jpeg aa/aa4/preview_C_98_1928_284_29.jpg 1 height pixels 181 width pixels 250 1616271405930 1 image 3 media image reference term-110277 adlib-term-110277 97f1ad1c-7b1d-373a-b0ae-ed010d95f37b animal figure history note Castle Hedingham Pottery. Bought there (from Mr Smith) on July 5 1907 for £1.10, by Dr Glaisher, Trinity College, Cambridge. According to Dr Glaisher’s notes, Mr Smith ‘of the Post Office’ was ‘in charge of the works’ after the pottery’s closure. 1 same potter reference object-76503 adlib-object-76503 d3608745-09a4-3279-9ec6-f7f7f71925ec

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jug reference agent-149638 adlib-agent-149638 7376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8 The Fitzwilliam Museum Publ. Vol. l, no. 98, . ‘ figure of a crocodile, among rushes, modelled in red earthenware, covered with a yellow glaze’. 16 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 reference publication-200002926 adlib-publication-200002926 d328843a-ca8d-340f-a75a-5150fd19f667 Story of Castle Hedingham Pottery Ref. Description of the pottery, with illustrations, and a brief note on Castle Hedingham. Also a 1906 letter from Edward Bingham, describing his first impressions of New York to Mr Smith. Reprinted (privately?) April 1944. 37-45 reference publication-200002927 adlib-publication-200002927 af67db69-c653-386e-bb9d-9dffdb78a404 Gestingthorpe Pot Works Ref. 104 reference publication-7461 adlib-publication-7461 097fcf79-5193-3f2c-a666-744b0d89fd6e Dictionary of Ceramic Artists Ref. 222-223 reference publication-3367 adlib-publication-3367 d690c068-f9ae-39f7-b781-c471ea3065c7 Encyclopaedia of British Art Pottery 1870-1920 animal reference term-106477 adlib-term-106477 b0f62f70-5e0b-328a-9420-ac0cc0e48921 crocodile literal crocodile crocodile

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