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An Opera Girl in the Character of Flora
Pottery:
Unidentified Liverpool pottery
Printer:
Green, Guy
Engraver:
Grignion, Charles
(Based on)
Painter:
Brandoin, Michel Vincent
(After)
Buff earthenware, tin-glazed white on the upper surface and transfer-printed in red. An Opera Girl in the Character of Flora; '88' border.
History note: Purchased from Mr Sidney Hand, Grafton Street, London, W. 1., for £1 9 June, 1922 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Depth: 0.7 cm
Height: 12.5 cm
Width: 12.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, third quarter#
George III
Circa
1771
CE
-
1775
CE
The design is based on a print by Charles Grignion after Michael Vincent Brandoin published by John Sayer, and dated 1 December 1771, entitled 'An OPERA GIRL of Paris in the Character of FLORA', see Documentation, Ray, 1973
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colour
( red)
Front
composed of
tin-glaze
buff Earthenware
Accession number: C.1742-1928
Primary reference Number: 15452
Old object number: 3787A
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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