IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 76501 accession number: C.990-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Friday 19 February 2021 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Earthenware figure of the actor John Liston in character, He wears a conical hat over a lawyer’s wig, a green jacket with red spotted bow at the neck, salmon pink pantaloons, blue stockings and black shoes with red rosettes. He holds a scroll in both hands (partly broken off) and his head is turned to the left, as if in proclamation. He stands against a short post, on a green mound. The back is fully modeled and painted. The underside of the base is recessed and glazed. object type: Earthenware , moulded and modelled, lead glazed and painted with polychrome enamels. title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: From the collection of Percy Fitzgerald Esq., FSA of 37 St George’s Road, S.W.. Bought at Christie’s on 24 January 1908,part of lot 14, by Mr Sutton of Eastbourne for Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, Trinity College, Cambridge. This and a similar but differently-coloured figure were bought for £6.6s (six pound six shillings). 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/76501 PEOPLE ------------------- Poole, John Liston, John Van Dunder SUBJECTS ------------------- theatre play play TECHNIQUES ---------- Earthenware, moulded and modelled, lead glazed and painted with enamels. moulding CATEGORIES ------ category: earthenware category: lead-glazed earthenware DATING ------ creation date: 1826 - 1830 creation date earliest: 1826 creation date latest: 1830 culture: 19th Century, second quarter# CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified Staffordshire factory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 17 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the earthenware collection of Staffordshire ware formed during the past forty years by Percy Fitzgerald Esq., FSA of 37 St George’s Road, S.W. Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge English Earthenware Figures 1740-1840 Staffordshire Portrait Figures and Allied Subjects of the Victorian Era People, Passions, Pastimes, and Pleasures, Staffordshire Figures 1810-1835 Plagiarism Personified? European Pottery and Porcelain Figures --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_990_1928_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/mid_C_990_1928_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_990_1928_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/preview_C_990_1928_281_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_990_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/mid_C_990_1928_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_990_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/preview_C_990_1928_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels