IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 71118 accession number: C.1001-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 30 April 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: The rectangular base is rounded to the back and its corners cut off to the front. The name ‘WELLINGTON’ is inscribed on the front of the base, in raised and gilded capitals, on a raised plaque. Wellington stands in contemplative pose, carrying a scroll of papers in his left hand and white gloves in his right, which rests on his hip. The figure is well coloured. He wears: a blue frock-coat, trimmed with gold; a red-trimmed waistcoat, delicately painted with green and purple motifs; a gilded cravat; trousers, painted in feathered stripes of purple; and shiny black shoes. A gold, star-shaped order hangs on a gold chain around his neck. The face is finely moulded and painted; the hair and sideburns are grey. The underside is concave and glazed, with a central vent hole. The back is moulded and coloured, though without detailed decoration. object type: White earthenware figure moulded in three parts, with separately moulded left arm, and pearlware glazed. Painted in cobalt blue and black underglaze and in black, grey, red green, purple and flesh pink enamels, and gilt. title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Bought from Mrs. Solomon at her shop (in a passage between Charingcross Road, and St Martin’s Lane) on 10 March, 1906, for £2.0.0, by Dr Glaisher, 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, 1928 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/71118 PEOPLE ------------------- Bonaparte, Napoléon Peel, Robert Duke of Wellington Wellesley, Arthur SUBJECTS ------------------- Waterloo, Battle of TECHNIQUES ---------- White earthenware moulded in three parts, with separately moulded left arm, and pearlware glazed. Painted in cobalt blue and black underglaze and in black, grey, red green, purple and flesh pink enamels, and gilt. The underside is concave and glazed, with a central vent hole. The back is moulded and coloured, though without detailed decoration. press-moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware DATING ------ creation date: 1845 - 1850 creation date earliest: 1845 creation date latest: 1850 culture: 19th Century, Mid culture: Victorian CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified factory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Depth units: cm value: 11 dimension: Depth units: in value: 4.375 dimension: Height units: cm value: 41.3 dimension: Height units: in value: 16.25 dimension: Width units: cm value: 15.5 dimension: Width units: in value: 6.125 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Staffordshire Portrait Figures and Allied Subjects of the Victorian Era Victorian Staffordshire Figures 1835-1875, Book One: portraits, naval & military, theatrical & literary characters Staffordshire Portrait Figures --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_1001_1928_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/mid_C_1001_1928_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_1001_1928_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/preview_C_1001_1928_281_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_1001_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/mid_C_1001_1928_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_1001_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/preview_C_1001_1928_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_1001_1928_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/mid_C_1001_1928_283_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_1001_1928_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/preview_C_1001_1928_283_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels