IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 71140 accession number: C.1013-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 18 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: The Princess stands on the Prince’s left, holding his arm. The oval base is inscribed ‘PRINCE & PRINCESS’ in raised, black painted, capitals. The figures are well coloured. He wears a long blue jacket; white trousers; a white waistcoat edged in pink; a brown spotted cravat; a gold watch-chain and black shoes. He carries a grey top hat in his right hand. She wears a white blouse and jacket, the latter edged in moulded feathers and a thin green line; and a full length skirt which is finely decorated with blue and green flowers, orange and gilt motifs, and a pink ribbon above the hem. On her left arm she carries a yellow hat with a moulded floral decoration and an orange band. Both have mid-brown hair. The underside is concave and glazed, with a vent hole towards the centre front. The back is moulded, but only partly decorated. object type: White earthenware figure group moulded in three parts and pearlware glazed. Painted in underglaze blue and in black, brown, grey, blue, green, orange, yellow and flesh-pink enamels, and gilt. title: figure group NOTES ----- type: history note value: Bought from 'a newly opened curiosity shop at the corner of Queen Street and Gresham Street, London, EC, on 1 June 1908, for 6/- (six shillings), 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 STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/71140 PEOPLE ------------------- Queen Victoria Prince Albert Edward Prince of Wales Edward VII (1901-10) Princess Alexandra SUBJECTS ------------------- marriage TECHNIQUES ---------- White earthenware moulded in three parts and pearlware glazed. Painted in underglaze blue and in black, brown, grey, blue, green, orange, yellow and flesh-pink enamels, and gilt. The underside is concave and glazed, with a vent hole towards the centre front. The back is moulded, but only partly decorated. press moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- painting TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing TECHNIQUES ---------- gilding CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware DATING ------ creation date: 1863 - 1863 creation date earliest: 1863 creation date latest: 1863 culture: 19th Century, Mid# culture: Victorian CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified factory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Depth units: cm value: 8.25 dimension: Depth units: in value: 3.25 dimension: Height units: cm value: 25.5 dimension: Height units: in value: 10 dimension: Width units: cm value: 16.5 dimension: Width units: in value: 6.25 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 Staffordshire Portrait Figures of the Victorian Age 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_1013_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_1013_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_1013_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_1013_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_1013_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_1013_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_1013_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_1013_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_1013_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_1013_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_1013_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_1013_1928_283_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels