Current Location: Gallery 27 (Glaisher)
Titles
Jenny Lind (as 'Marie')
Entities
Categories
Description
White earthenware moulded in three parts and pearlware glazed. Painted in underglaze cobalt blue and with black, red, green, pink and flesh-pink enamels, and gilt.
The oval base is flattened to a half-hexagon at the front and lettered ‘MD Lind’ in gilt script, with three gilt strokes to either side. The figure is well coloured. Jenny Lind stands with her right hand raised to her green hat. She wears a blue jacket with a gilt-edged white collar. Her skirt has broad pink stripes, gold buttons down the front and additional decoration lines in black. She wears red boots and her green hat has a thin black band. The underside is concave and glazed, with a central vent hole (covered by a label). The back is moulded, but decorated only above the waist.
Notes
History note: 109 S. 15th Street Philadelphia U.S.A, bought on 23 April 1910, for $4, by Dr Glaisher, Trinity College, Cambridge
Legal notes
Dr J.W.L.Glaisher Bequest
Measurements and weight
Depth: 6.2 cm
Depth: 2.375 in
Height: 20 cm
Height: 7.875 in
Width: 7.6 cm
Width: 3 in
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed
(1928)
by
Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
Dating
19th Century, Mid
Victoria I
Production date:
circa
AD 1847
School or Style
Victorian
People, subjects and objects depicted
Components of the work
Decoration
composed of
enamels
( black, red, green, pink and flesh-pink)
underglaze cobalt-blue
gold
Materials used in production
White earthenware
Lead-glaze
Techniques used in production
Press moulding
: White earthenware moulded in three parts and pearlware glazed. Painted in underglaze cobalt blue and with black, red, green, pink and flesh-pink enamels, and gilt. The underside is concave and glazed, with a central vent hole (covered by a label). The back is moulded, but decorated only above the waist.
Painting
Lead-glazing
Gilding
Inscription or legends present
Inscription present: gilt script, with three gilt strokes to either side
- Text: MD LIND
- Location: Front of base
- Method of creation: Painted in gilt script
- Type: Name
Inscription present: rectangular paper label, faded ink
- Text: No. 3140 Staffordshire figure of Jenny Lind. b. in Philadelphia [date illegible] 1910
- Location: Underside of base
- Method of creation: Handwritten in black ink
- Type: Label
References and bibliographic entries
Identification numbers
Accession number: C.1003-1928
Primary reference Number: 71123
Old object number: 3140
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Saturday 6 August 2011
Updated: Monday 25 March 2024
Last processed: Thursday 14 August 2025
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
