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The Prudent Mother
Factory: Derby Porcelain Factory
Soft-paste porcelain, slip-cast, and painted over lead-glaze in green, flesh-pink, red, pale brown, grey, and black enamels, and gilt
Soft-paste porcelain, slip-cast, and painted over lead-glaze in green, flesh-pink, red, pale brown, grey, and black enamels, and gilt. The underside is unglazed and has four patch marks surrounding a large central ventilation hole. The group is supported on a rectangular pedestal base. The lower register has projecting corners decorated with rosettes, and on the sides, swags in relief. Above, the sides are fluted and concave with a moulding round the top. The mother sits in a high-backed chair, resting her left foot on a green footstool or kneeler. She has her left arm round the shoulders of a little boy who rests his elbows on her left thigh. She points with her right hand to a book on her lap, which he is trying to read. She wears a cap, a dress with a kerchief round its neckline, and an apron decorated with scattered sprays of gold leaves. Gold lines run round the lower edge of her sleeves, bodice, edge of the apron, and hem. The boy wears a coat, breeches, and shoes. The figures are white except for their hair, flesh and features. There is a red line round the edge of the book. The rosettes on the base have gold centres, and the upper and lower edges of its upper part have a horizontal gold band running round them.
History note: Law, Foulsham and Cole, South Molton Street, London from whom purchased for £19 with its pair, the Madonna and Child on 23 October 1916 by Dr. J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge. The asking price individually was £10.10s.
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 21.2 cm
Width: 10.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, Late
George III
Circa
1780
-
1790
A pair with C.3078-1928
Decoration
composed of
enamels
( green, flesh-pink, red, pale brown, grey, and black)
lead-glaze
( presumed lead)
gold
Proper Left Side
Depth 11.2 cm
Slip-casting
: Soft-paste porcelain, slip-cast, and painted over lead-glaze in green, flesh-pink, red, pale brown, grey, and black enamels, and gilt
Lead-glazing
Accession number: C.3077-1928
Primary reference Number: 42654
Old object number: 4504
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "The Prudent Mother" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/42654 Accessed: 2024-12-18 17:00:49
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