IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 76954 accession number: EC.35.2-1943 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 25 February 2020 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Pale cream earthenware, moulded, with applied moulded and shredded slay details, coated overall with very slightly blue tinted glaze owhich has crazed and discoloured to pale brown over much of the surface. The figure is supported on a roughly circular low mound base with a low tree with four leafy branches (two missing) at the back, and three clumps of applied shredded clay moss round the front; the underside is concave. The boy stands facing the viewer in front of the tree holding a basket over his left arm; his right hand is missing. He wears a wreath of tiny flowers on his head, and is nude apart from a drape passing over his right shoulder and across the front of his body. title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Found with other figures and fragments beneath the pavement on the south side of Burslem old Town Hall (oposite 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. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by Stoke-on-Trent Museum in exchange for a Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/76954 PEOPLE ------------------- boy SUBJECTS ------------------- basket basket TECHNIQUES ---------- pale cream earthenware, moulded, with applied moulded and shredded slay details, coated overall with very slightly blue tinted glaze owhich has crazed and discoloured to pale brown (iron stains) over much of the surface press-moulded TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glaze CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware category: pearlware DATING ------ creation date: 1820 - 1830 creation date earliest: 1820 creation date latest: 1830 culture: 1820s culture: George IV CREATORS -------- maker: Wood, Enoch DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 9.6 dimension: Width units: cm value: 7.2 CITATIONS -------- English Earthenware Figures 1740-1840 --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/EC_35_2_1943_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/mid_EC_35_2_1943_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/EC_35_2_1943_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/preview_EC_35_2_1943_281_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/EC_35_2_1943_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/mid_EC_35_2_1943_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/EC_35_2_1943_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa3/preview_EC_35_2_1943_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels