IDENTIFIERS
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id:	318380
accession number:	C.2360-1928

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Tuesday 15 July 2025
updated:	Tuesday 12 August 2025

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Earthenware, press-moulded, and tin-glazed greyish-white overall. The figures are supported on a shallow square base moulded to resemble cobbles, and having a mooring bollard with a rope wound round it in the viewer's right back corner. The girl stands with her feet together in front of the bollard . She wears a wide-brimmed hat, and a bodice with a low neckline, three-quarter sleeves, lacing over the stomacher, and a full skirt. Her shoes have pompoms on the top. The sailor steps forward on his right foot, and has his left leg stretched out behind him. He leans towards the girl. He has his left arm around her shoulders and takes her right hand in his. He is bareheaded, and carries his hat under his arm. He wears a cravat, a short jacket, trousers which end above the ankle, and shoes with buckles.
object type: tin-glazed earthenware figures of a sailor courting a girl supported on a square base with a mooring bollard behind the girl
title:	figure group

NOTES
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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
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
collection:	J. W. L. Glaisher
creditline: Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/318380


SUBJECTS
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courtship
sailor
girl
sailor
girl



TECHNIQUES
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buff earthenware, press-moulded in parts and assembled before firing, and tin-glazed greyish-white overall
press moulding

CATEGORIES
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category: tin-glazed earthenware
category: French faïence

DATING
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creation date:	1770 - 1775
creation date earliest:	1770
creation date latest:	1775
culture:	18th Century, third quarter

CREATORS
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maker: Hannong factory

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Depth
units: cm
value: 10.5

dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 21

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 13.2



CITATIONS
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Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge
Faïences françaises XVIe-XVIIIe siècles
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