IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 81869 accession number: C.61-1992 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Thursday 7 April 2022 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Earthenware coated with white slip, clear-glazed and decorated with glazes coloured blue, yellow, greenish-yellow, purple, reddish-brown, brown, grey, and black which are streaked and dribbled over the surface The Madonna sits on a square block on a rectangular pedestal raised on four feet moulded from the lower end of light bulbs. Her head is turned slightly to the right. Her left leg is forward with the foot flat, and her right leg is bent so that the foot rests on the toes beside the pedestal. The suckling infant boy sits on her left thigh, and she supports him with her left arm and right hand. The word 'Madonna' is painted vertically on the inside of her left calf, and is repeated larger on the block, 'Ma/do/nn/a'. The word 'bambino' is painted on the lower part of her body title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: purchased from the potter LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Given by the Friends of the Fitzwilliam Museum STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/81869 CATEGORIES ------ category: earthenware DATING ------ creation date: 1992 - 1992 creation date earliest: 1992 creation date latest: 1992 culture: 20th Century, Late# culture: Elizabeth I CREATORS -------- maker: Eglin, Philip DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Depth units: cm value: 36.5 dimension: Height units: cm value: 73 CITATIONS -------- Modern British Potters and their Studios Philip Eglin, Unfinished Business ---