Market Woman
Production: Samuel Gilbody's Porcelain Manufactory (Perhaps)
Soft-paste porcelain, press-moulded, and painted overglaze in pale greyish-blue, pale yellow, flesh, red, brown, and black enamels.The underside has large circular ventilation hole, and apart from a small area near the ventilation hole, is unglazed. The woman stands on a low circular base. She has ruddy cheeks, brown eyes and red lips. She wears a pale yellow hat over a white frilled cap, a short red cape, a pale greyish-blue petticoat, a yellow skirt, a white apron, and black shoes.Her feet are slightly part, and she holds a piece of dark flesh-coloured wood (?) under her right arm, and holds up her apron in her left hand.
History note: Purchased from Mr Stewart Acton at Brighton for £7 on 24 April 1918 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher.
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 17 cm
Width: 8.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, Mid
George II
Circa
1754
CE
-
Circa
1760
CE
The figure was identified as Longton Hall by the London dealer, Stoner, in 1918. It was reattributed from Longton Hall to Samuel Gilbody's factory in Liverpool by Dr Bernard Watney (see Documentation, Watney 1997). He stated that Gilbody figures have a phosphatic paste and are usually slip-cast, although 'some of the figure fragments from the site appear to be press-moulded.' The body of this piece has not been analysed.
Decoration composed of enamel ( pale greyish-blue, pale yellow, flesh, red, brown, and black)
probably phosphatic
Soft-paste porcelain
slightly blue
Lead-glaze
Moulding
: Soft-paste porcelain, slip-cast (?) and painted overglaze in pale greyish-blue, pale yellow, flesh, red, brown, and black enamels. The underside has acentral ventilation hole.
Lead-glazing
Accession number: C.3095-1928
Primary reference Number: 82444
Old object number: 4027
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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