IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 81671 accession number: C.10-2002 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 29 April 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Porcelain, hand-modelled, with closed underside, covered with clear glaze which has crazed. A few small areas are covered in gold leaf. The medieval style Madonnna is seated on a rectangular rocky throne with an incurved lower part on the reverse, and an upright back. Her eyes are pierced and have protruding edges. Her right hand is cut off, and the stump is gilded. She supports the standing Christ Child on her left thigh with her long-fingered left hand. The projecting tips of her pointed shoes are gilded. Her left elbow is stamped with an M in the style of Macdonald's, and there is a row of similar Ms across the back of her headdress. The top of the Christ Child's head is cut off and his left arm above the elbow. His right arm is bent, and raised with the palm of his hand facing downwards. He wears a pleated gown with a stamped or moulded raised circle on the front with relief lettering: 'Popular/BS 1970. 84 (?)/R' [R in a circle]. The viewer's right side of the throne has '49' in relief in a square. On the back of the throne there is a rectangle with relief symbols: a fork and glass, a circle with a curved direction arrow, a triangle enclosing an 'a' with PS reversed below, a man throwing rubbish into a basket, and a circle with CFC in reverse crossed diagonally. The man with a basket is also impressed on the curve of the rock, and on the viewer's left side of the back. On the right side of the back there is a small rectangle of gold leaf and near the top of the back of the Madonnna are the words 'Keep Upright' in relief covered by a curved rectangle of gold leaf. object type: Medieval style Madonna and Child in glazed porcelain with small areas of gold leaf. title: figure group NOTES ----- type: history note value: Barrett Marsden Gallery, 17-18 Great Sutton Street, London, EC1V 0DN, from which purchased by Nicholas and Judith Goodison LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Gift of Nicholas and Judith Goodison through the National Art Collections Fund STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/81671 PEOPLE ------------------- Madonna Christ TECHNIQUES ---------- porcelain, hand-modelled (?), with closed underside, covered with clear glaze which has crazed. A few small areas are covered in gold leaf. hand-modelling TECHNIQUES ---------- glazing (coating) CATEGORIES ------ category: porcelain category: Studio Ceramics DATING ------ creation date: 2002 - 2002 creation date earliest: 2002 creation date latest: 2002 culture: 21st Century, Early culture: Elizabeth II CREATORS -------- maker: Eglin, Philip DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 47.5 dimension: Width units: cm value: 19.2 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: The Grosvenor House Art & Antiques Fair CITATIONS -------- 2002 Review, The Annual Report of the National Art Collections Fund The Grosvenor House Art & Antiques Fair, 2005 Handbook Contemporary British Crafts: The Goodison Gift to The Fitzwilliam Museum Modern British Potters and their Studios --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa33/C_10_2002.jpg height: 1025 pixels width: 762 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa33/mid_C_10_2002.jpg height: 673 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa33/C_10_2002.jpg height: 1025 pixels width: 762 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa33/preview_C_10_2002.jpg height: 336 pixels width: 250 pixels