IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 76498 accession number: C.988-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 18 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: John Bryan stand with his right hand holding a book and resting on the top of a short pillar; his left hand clasps his lapel. The figure is well coloured. He wears a shiny black three piece suit, with frock coat, a white cravat, breeches, black stockings and black shoes. He is very portly. His hair is grey and his eyebrows finely painted. The pillar is grey, with a brick-shaped pattern in the moulding, and the top of the book is red. The oval base has a chamfered edge to the top, on which ‘J. BRYAN’ is inscribed in raised and gilded capitals; below, a gilt line runs across the front. The underside is concave and glazed, with a central vent hole. The back is moulded and mainly painted. object type: White earthenware fgure moulded in three parts, with separately moulded right arm, and lead glazed. Painted in underglaze black and in grey, red and flesh-pink enamels, and gilt. title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Messrs Mortlock’s, corners of Oxford St. and Orchard St. W. Bought on on March 15 1910 )for £2-2 (two guineas, or £2 two shillings) by Dr Glaisher, Trinity College, Cambridge, who notes: ‘It was priced £3.3 but I got the old gentleman to consent to reduce it’. 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 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/76498 PEOPLE ------------------- Bryan, John SUBJECTS ------------------- preaching TECHNIQUES ---------- White earthenware moulded in three parts, with separately moulded right arm, and lead glazed. Painted in underglaze black and in grey, red and flesh-pink enamels, and gilt. The underside is concave and glazed, with a central vent hole. The back is moulded and mainly painted. press moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- painting TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing TECHNIQUES ---------- gilding CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware DATING ------ creation date: 1840 - 1850 creation date earliest: 1840 creation date latest: 1850 culture: 19th Century, Mid# culture: Victorian CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified factory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Depth units: cm value: 8 dimension: Depth units: in value: 2.125 dimension: Height units: cm value: 26.5 dimension: Height units: in value: 10.5 dimension: Width units: cm value: 11 dimension: Width units: in value: 4.375 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Staffordshire Portrait Figures and Allied Subjects of the Victorian Era Victorian Staffordshire Figures 1835-1875, Book One: portraits, naval & military, theatrical & literary characters The Victorian Staffordshire Figure --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_988_1928_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/mid_C_988_1928_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_988_1928_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/preview_C_988_1928_281_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_988_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/mid_C_988_1928_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_988_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/preview_C_988_1928_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_988_1928_284_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/mid_C_988_1928_284_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_988_1928_284_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/preview_C_988_1928_284_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels