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Pew Group
Unidentified Staffordshire factory
(Factory)
White salt-glazed stoneware, hand-modelled, pew group of a man and woman seated on a high back bench. The man is playing bagpipes, and wears a curly wig, cocked hat, frock coat, knee breeches, white ribbed stockings, and dark brown shoes with white buckles. The woman holds a pug dog on her lap, wearing a tight bodice and wide skirt with details in dark bown clay.
The back of the bench is decorated with a vase of conventional flower motives, incised and inlaid with brown slip. There are plaited threads of brown and white clay along the arms of the bench.
History note: Unknown before Mrs W.D. Dickson, Bournemouth
Given by Mrs W.D. Dickson
Height: 14.9 cm
Width: 18.1 cm
Relative size of this object is displayed using code inspired by Good Form and Spectacle's work on the British Museum's Waddeson Bequest website and their dimension drawer. They chose a tennis ball to represent a universally sized object, from which you could envisage the size of an object.
Method of acquisition: Given
(1943-06-29)
by
Dickson, W. D. (Frances Louisa), Mrs
Mid 18th Century
George II
Circa
1745
CE
-
Circa
1750
1750
CE
Bench: Figures: Slip:
white and brown Salt-glazed stoneware Slip coating
Accession number: EC.7-1943
Primary reference Number: 76990
Stable URI
Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2020) "Figure group"
Web page available at: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/76990 Accessed: 2021-12-06 21:38:46
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