IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 318379 accession number: C.3260-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Tuesday 15 July 2025 updated: Tuesday 15 July 2025 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Buff earthenware, moulded, and covered with greyish tin-glaze. The figures stand on a shallow square base with cut corners, moulded to resemble cobbles. The girl stands on the viewer's right in front of a mooring bollard with a rope wound around it. She wears a hat with a broad brim, a low-necked bodice with lacing over the stomacher, and a long skirt and shoes with pompoms on top. The young sailor steps forward on his right foot, and leans towards the girl. He has his left arm around the her shoulders and holds her right hand in his. He is bare-headed and holds his hat under his right arm. He wears a cravat, a short jacket, trousers which end above his ankles, and buckled shoes. There is a ventilation hole in the top of the bollard and another in the mans back below the edge of his jacket. object type: tin-glazed earthenware figures of a sailor holding a girl by the hand, standing beside a mooring bollard on a quay title: figure group NOTES ----- type: history note value: Mr Perron, rue Beffroy, Rouen, from whom purchased for 30 francs on 6 April. 1901 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: J. W. L. Glaisher creditline: Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/318379 SUBJECTS ------------------- courtship sailor girl bollard sailor girl bollard TECHNIQUES ---------- buff earthenware, press-moulded in parts, assembled, and fired; tin-glazed greyish white overall moulding CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: French faïence DATING ------ creation date: 1770 - 1780 creation date earliest: 1770 creation date latest: 1780 culture: 1770s CREATORS -------- maker: Hannong factory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 21 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge ---