IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 76512 accession number: C.999-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 18 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: The Claimant stands against a rough hewn wall; his left hand holds a bird and his right a shot-gun, the butt of which rests on the ground. The figure plain white. He wears a long jacket, a waistcoat, a watch chain, a shirt with bow tie, and a top hat. He has a trimmed beard. The oval base is concave and glazed and inscribed ‘SIR R TICHBORNE’ in raised capitals. The back is moulded with a vent hole 13.5 cm from the bottom. object type: White earthenware figure moulded in three parts, perhaps with separately moulded head. The pearlware glaze is quite thick, with fine blue flecks. Not painted. title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Sharpe’s, Newmarket Road, Cambridge. Bought on 7 August 1913, for 4/6 (four shillings and sixpence), by Dr 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 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/76512 PEOPLE ------------------- Orton, Arthur Tichborne, Roger Tichborne Claimant, The TECHNIQUES ---------- White earthenware moulded in three parts, perhaps with separately moulded head. The pearlware glaze is quite thick, with fine blue flecks. Not painted. The oval base is concave and glazed. The back is moulded with a vent hole 13.5 cm from the bottom. press-moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware DATING ------ creation date: 1874 - 1874 creation date earliest: 1874 creation date latest: 1874 culture: 19th Century, Mid# culture: Victorian CREATORS -------- maker: Sampson Smith DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Depth units: cm value: 11 dimension: Depth units: in value: 4.325 dimension: Height units: cm value: 36.5 dimension: Height units: in value: 14.375 dimension: Width units: cm value: 13.3 dimension: Width units: in value: 5.25 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge The Victorian Staffordshire Figure Staffordshire Portrait Figures and Allied Subjects of the Victorian Era Victorian Staffordshire Figures 1835-1875, Book One: portraits, naval & military, theatrical & literary characters Staffordshire Portrait Figures of the Victorian Age Staffordshire Figures Sampson Smith, manufacturer of all kinds if figures in great variety: a celebration Catalogue of the collection of pottery and porcelain illustrating popular British history lent by Henry Willett Esq., of Brighton, --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_999_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_999_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_999_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_999_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_999_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_999_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_999_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_999_1928_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels