IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 76506 accession number: C.992-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Wednesday 15 July 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Staffordshire figure group of a square double pulpit; at the top, a sleeping vicar with his head resting on his left hand; at the bottom, a speaking clerk with his left hand raised in benediction; each figure has his right hand draped over the front of his pulpit, on which rests an open bible. The vicar wears a wig and clerical dress; the clerk has grey hair, a black jacket and white stock; the edges of the bibles are thin and marbled; the pulpit is red brown and covered with touches of black, suggesting a texture. The back is flat but painted. The underside is flat and unglazed. object type: Earthenware figure group, moulded and modelled, lead-glazed and painted with polychrome enamels. title: figure group NOTES ----- type: history note value: Bought from Mr Hagger of Saffron Walden on 28 July 1906, for 30/- (thirty shillings),by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, Trinity College, Cambridge. Mr Hagger had bought it about two months before at a sale at Sawbridgeworth. 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/76506 PEOPLE ------------------- Hogarth, William Stevens, George Alexander vicar SUBJECTS ------------------- The Sleeping Congregation pulpit pulpit TECHNIQUES ---------- Earthenware, moulded and modelled, lead glazed and painted with enamels. moulding CATEGORIES ------ 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: Height units: cm value: 24.5 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge The Wood Family of Burslem Property from the Collection of Joseph and Walter Bush Ford II, 6 October 2006 English Earthenware Figures 1740-1840 People, Passions, Pastimes, and Pleasures, Staffordshire Figures 1810-1835 Songs, comic and satyrical --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_992_1928.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/mid_C_992_1928.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_992_1928.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/preview_C_992_1928.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels