IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 81687 accession number: C.11-2002 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Wednesday 25 October 2017 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Earthenware, slip-cast, tin-glazed pale yellow except for circular, heart-shaped and tri-lobed reserves, painted in dark blue, and a little black; applied glass eyes with black pupils and pale green irises with pale brown markings. There is a large roughly oval ventilation hole in the base. The cat sits facing in profile to the right with its head turned to its right to face the front. The interiors of both ears are painted dark blue, and the eyebrows, nose, and mouth in black. Down its back there are four reserved motifs with two lobes at the top and one larger lobe below, outlined, and partly filled in with blue. On the rest of the body there are circular and heart-shaped reserves similarly decorated in blue. The tail has four horizontal reserved stripes, each with blue edges and a central wavy blue stripe. object type: Seated cat, tin-glazed pale yellow, painted in blue and black, with circular, lobe and heart motifs. title: animal figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Unknown before donor in whose possession it had been for many years. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Bequeathed by Mrs Powley STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/81687 SUBJECTS ------------------- cat cat TECHNIQUES ---------- Earthenware, slip-cast, tin-glazed pale yellow except for circular, heart-shaped and tri-lobed reserves, painted in dark blue, and a little black; applied glass eyes. slip-casting TECHNIQUES ---------- tin-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: earthenware DATING ------ creation date: 1880 - 1900 creation date earliest: 1880 creation date latest: 1900 culture: 19th Century, Late# culture: Victoria I CREATORS -------- maker: Emile Gallé DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 32.8 dimension: Length units: cm value: 19.6 CITATIONS -------- Keramik von Emile Gallé Jewels, Silver and Wemyss Pottery Property from the Collection of Josephine & Walter Buhl Ford II ---