IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 48211 accession number: C.2170-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 18 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Pale buff terracotta, tin-glazed on all surfaces except the back of the pedestal and interior, which is hollow. Glaze colours are blue, yellow, brownish-yellow, brown, manganese-purple and red. Judith stands on a rectangular pedestal, moulded in relief with an acanthus leaf on each front corner and with a frieze of figures across the front. Her weight is on her right foot and she rests her left on the torso of Holofernes, whose left shoulder and arm project over the edge of the pedestal. Judith holds his decapitated head by its hair in her left hand; her right arm is raised, the hand grasping a sword hilt (the blade missing). She has long hair, waist length at the back, falling in ringlets over her shoulders at the side. She wears a long gown with elbow-length sleeves, and a full-skirted, sleeveless tunic, fastened by a belt and doubled up over her hips. She has sandals, a bead armlet on each arm and a small tiara or frontlet. The pedestal is yellow with a purple top. Judith's hair is brownish-yellow. Her gown is white with a yellow hem. Her over-gown is blue with yellow ornament round the neck, a yellow belt and hem. Her sandals are purple, her tiara, armlets and sword hilt yellow. Her flesh is tinted slightly pink and her features are delineated in manganese. Holofernes' torso is greyish-white; the edge of his neck is red, his hair and beard brown and his features manganese. object type: pale buff terracotta, decorated with coloured tin-glazes title: figure group NOTES ----- type: history note value: Dr William Whewell D.D. (1794-1866), Master of Trinity College, Cambridge; Dr Bampstead, Leighton, Trumpington Road, Cambridge; sold on the premises, 14-17th August, 1917, his sale lot 20; sold for £1 to Mr Jolley of Cambridge, by whom sold for £4.10s. on 6 October 1917 to 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/48211 PEOPLE ------------------- Whewell, William Bumpstead, Dr Judith Holofernes SUBJECTS ------------------- sword acanthus sword acanthus CATEGORIES ------ category: tin-glazed earthenware category: maiolica DATING ------ creation date: 1800 - 1860 creation date earliest: 1800 creation date latest: 1860 culture: 19th Century, first half# culture: 19th Century, Mid# CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified maker: Della Robbia, Giovanni DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 62 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Giovanni della Robbia Die Judith von Giovanni della Robbia Nochmals: Die Judith von Giovanni della Robbia, eine weiter Replik in Dresden Götter, Helden und Grotesken, Das Goldene Zeitalter der Majolika Collection Yves Saint Laurent et Pierre Bergé, Sculptures, Objets d'Art, Art d'Asie, Archéologie et Mobilier I Della Robbia. La scultura invetriata nel Rinascimento Les Della Robbia, Sculptures en terre cuite émaillée de la Renaissance italienne L’Italia del Rinascimento. 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