IDENTIFIERS
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id:	76493
accession number:	C.983-1928

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Wednesday 15 July 2020

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Earthenware figure representing a gentleman in relaxed pose with his arm on a book which rests on a square pedestal. He wears a wig, a red-brown coat over a yellow waistcoat, breeches with a sprig pattern and wavy blue stockings. He stands on a green and brown grassy mound, the bottom edge of which has been cut into a scroll at the front. The back is flat and only partially painted. The underside is recessed and glazed.
object type: Earthenware, moulded with modelled additions, lead glazed and painted with polychrome enamels.
title:	figure

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Bought from Mr Bishop at Bideford on 1 October 1912 for £1.7s 6d (one pound seven shillings and sixpence) by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, Trinity College, Cambridge.


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/76493





CATEGORIES
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category: earthenware
category: lead-glazed earthenware

DATING
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creation date:	1830 - 1840
creation date earliest:	1830
creation date latest:	1840
culture:	19th Century, second quarter#

CREATORS
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maker: Unidentified factory


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
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