IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 76509 accession number: C.995-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Friday 15 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: The underside is concave and glazed. The back is fully moulded and decorated, but without gilt. object type: The banner reads: ‘He that commiteth his conscience to the keeping of another is no longer a free man. Freedom of conscience and freedom of thought are essential to the freedom of a nation. Therefore a nation of Catholics is a nation of slaves’. object type: The round base is deeply waisted, with additional shaping to the front. A gilt line runs across the top and bottom of the base, and a transferred title, ‘POPERY.’, sits between two short, horizontal, gilt lines. The banner and scroll are also transfer printed. The scroll reads: ‘Either we must root out the Bible or the Bible will root us out. “The translators of the English Bible are to be abhorred to the depths of Hell”. It would be better to be without God’s law than without the Pope’s’. Dr. Troy. Arh Bishop of Dublin 1816’. object type: A bare-headed priest stands in dejected pose. He holds a chained book in his right hand, a scroll in his left, and his feet are chained. Behind him is a banner, swathed in chains. The figure is well coloured. The priest wears black clerical dress with white bands and a white cord around his waist. The book is brown; the chains are black and gilt; the scroll is outlined in gilt; and the banner has a flesh-pink pole. The priest’s black hair has a combed pattern, his eyes are gilt and his eyebrows finely painted. object type: White earthenware figure moulded in three parts, with separately moulded hands and book. Painted in black, brown, grey, red and flesh-pink enamels, and gilt, and transfer printed. title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Greville Douglas, 27 Wilton Crescent, London S.W. Bought on 11 Feb1919 at Christies, lot 59 with a figure of John Wesley, for 3½ guineas (£3 ten shillings), by Mr Stoner for Dr Glaisher, Trinity College, Cambridge. Dr Glaisher paid £4 (including commission). 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/76509 PEOPLE ------------------- Catholic church TECHNIQUES ---------- White earthenware moulded in three parts, with separately moulded hands and book. Painted in black, brown, grey, red and flesh-pink enamels, and gilt, and transfer printed. The base is concave and glazed. The back is fully moulded and decorated, but without gilt. press moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- painting TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing TECHNIQUES ---------- gilding CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware DATING ------ creation date: 1851 - 1851 creation date earliest: 1851 creation date latest: 1851 culture: 19th Century, Mid# culture: Victorian CREATORS -------- maker: Parr, Thomas DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Depth units: cm value: 9 dimension: Depth units: in value: 3.5 dimension: Height units: cm value: 23 dimension: Height units: in value: 9 dimension: Width units: cm value: 9 dimension: Width units: in value: 3.5 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 Two: religious, hunters, pastoral, occupations, children & animals, dogs, animals, cottages & castles, sport & miscellaneous Staffordshire Portrait Figures of the Victorian Age The Victorian Staffordshire Figure Staffordshire Portrait Figures Victorian pottery religious figures and who bought them --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_995_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_995_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_995_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_995_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_995_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_995_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_995_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_995_1928_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels