IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 71143 accession number: C.1015B-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 18 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: The oval base is flattened at the back; the front is inscribed ‘Potash Farm’ in gilt script. The top of the base is moulded and painted to suggest lawn, with a small flight of steps and two reclining animals. The model is well coloured. The three storey house has twelve windows, arranged symmetrically around a red front door; red and blue flowers wind around the door and climb up the front of the house. The thatched roof is painted in a combed pattern of buff and brown; roughly edged in green and orange-red shards; and topped by a red chimney. There is a low extension to the viewer’s right, with a similar roof and chimney, three windows and a red door. Except for the chimneys, the back and sides are unpainted. The underside is concave and glazed, with an arrow-shaped vent hole in the middle. The back is flat. object type: White earthenware model building moulded in three parts, with small shards of clay added to decorate. Painted with black, brown, blue, green, buff and orange-red enamels, and gilt. title: model building NOTES ----- type: history note value: Mr Levine at Norwich. Bought on 25 May, 1918, with model of Stanfield Hall, for £3.10/- (£3 ten shillings) the pair, by Dr Glaisher, Trinity College, Cambridge. Dr Glaisher notes that this ‘was very cheap. For I have been asked more that this for Potash Farm alone’. 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/71143 PEOPLE ------------------- Rush, J. B. Jermy, Isaac SUBJECTS ------------------- murder farm farm TECHNIQUES ---------- White earthenware moulded in three parts, with small shards of clay added to decorate. Painted with black, brown, blue, green, buff and orange-red enamels, and gilt. The underside is concave and glazed, with an arrow-shaped vent hole in the middle. The back is flat. press-moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware DATING ------ creation date: 1849 - 1849 creation date earliest: 1849 creation date latest: 1849 culture: 19th Century, Mid# culture: Victorian CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified factory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Depth units: cm value: 7 dimension: Depth units: in value: 2.75 dimension: Height units: cm value: 20.5 dimension: Height units: in value: 8.5 dimension: Width units: cm value: 21.5 dimension: Width units: in value: 8.5 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 Two: religious, hunters, pastoral, occupations, children & animals, dogs, animals, cottages & castles, sport & miscellaneous Notes on the Willett Collection of Pottery at the Brighton Museum The Earthenware Collector Staffordshire Portrait Figures --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_1015B_1928_281_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/mid_C_1015B_1928_281_29.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_1015B_1928_281_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/preview_C_1015B_1928_281_29.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_1015B_1928_282_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/mid_C_1015B_1928_282_29.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_1015B_1928_282_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/preview_C_1015B_1928_282_29.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels