IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 76494 accession number: C.984-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 29 April 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Earthenware figure of a woman kneeling, with her head resting on a pillow atop a small plinth. Her arms clasp the pillar and her head is turned to the front; her eyes are closed and she is bare foot. She wears a red-brown dress, edged with yellow around the neck. Her elaborately styled hair is held in place by a band of yellow, raising to green at the front (possibly a crown??). The base is green, rectangular and raised with ridged sides. The figure is moulded and painted in the round. The underside of the base is recessed and glazed, with a small central vent hole. object type: Earthenware figure, moulded, lead glazed and painted with red-brown, green, grey and yellow enamels. title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Bought at Graham’s in Brompton Road on 12 February 1912 for £1.5s (one pound five shillings) by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, Trinity College, Cambridge. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: J. W. L. Glaisher creditline: Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest, 1928 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/76494 TECHNIQUES ---------- Earthenware, moulded, lead glazed and painted with enamels. moulding CATEGORIES ------ category: earthenware category: lead-glazed earthenware DATING ------ creation date: 1810 - 1835 creation date earliest: 1810 creation date latest: 1835 culture: 19th Century, Early CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified factory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Depth units: cm value: 5 dimension: Height units: cm value: 8.5 dimension: Width units: cm value: 9.5 CITATIONS -------- 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 --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_984_1928_281_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/mid_C_984_1928_281_29.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_984_1928_281_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/preview_C_984_1928_281_29.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_984_1928_282_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/mid_C_984_1928_282_29.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_984_1928_282_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/preview_C_984_1928_282_29.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels