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Woman and Child representing Charity
Wood, Enoch
(Factory)
Pale cream earthenware, press-moulded, and covered with very slightly blue lead-glazed which is finely crazed and has discoloured to pale brown over most of the surface. The underside is hollow and glazed. The figures are supported on a high rounded base with three clumps of applied 'moss' on the top at the front, and a tree stump at the back to support the figure. Charity, stands looking downards, both arms missing from above the elbow. She has long wavy hear falling down over her shoulders, and wears a long dress with low neckline and high waist, and a scarf draped over her right shoulder and tied on her left hip. A child, nude apart from a drape over his shoulder and round his body, and lacking his head, stands beside her raising both arms to her side.
History note: Found beneath the pavement on the south side of Burslem old Town Hall (opposite the Leopard Inn) during Mr Bemrose's excavation in April 1938; exchanged with other fragments for a copy of Rackham's Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection, 1935.
Height: 18.6 cm
Method of acquisition: Exchanged
(1943)
by
The Potteries Museum and Art Gallery
First quarter of 19th century
George IV
Circa
1820
CE
-
1830
1830
CE
Base:
Width 9.5 cm
pale cream Earthenware presumed lead-glaze, very slightly tinted blue Lead-glaze
Press-moulding : Pale cream earthenware, press-moulded, with shredded clay 'moss' applied to the top of the base, and covered with very slightly blue lead-glaze which has crazed and discoloured to pale borwn over much of the surface
Lead-glazing
Accession number: EC.35.1-1943
Primary reference Number: 76953
Stable URI
Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2020) "Figure group"
Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/76953 Accessed: 2021-11-28 03:29:36
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Accession Number: E.8.1955
Accession Number: C.3224-1928
Accession Number: M.1-1882
Accession Number: C.970-1928
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