IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 71146 accession number: C.1018-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Monday 18 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Moses sits above the watch opening, which is encircled by a spray of green leaves and blue flowers. His left hand supports the tablets of the law. A black staff rests against his right shoulder. The oval base has a chamfered top edge to the front, on which ‘MOSES’ is inscribed in relief, black script capitals, above a gilt line. The figure is well coloured. Moses wears a pink robe, a yellow skirt decorated with tiny, red, brown and blue flower sprigs, and an orange belt. His hair and beard are long and grey; his feet are bare. The figure is framed by three flame-like green leaves on each side, which curl up from the bottom. The base is concave and glazed. Only the back of Moses is moulded; there is a vent hole 14.5cm from the bottom. object type: White earthenware figure moulded in three parts, with 5cm diameter circular hole containing a separately moulded half-bowl to the front, and pearlware glazed. Painted with black, grey, green, blue, red, pink, orange and flesh-pink enamels, and gilt. title: watch stand NOTES ----- type: history note value: Mrs Shaw (née. Miss C. Crommelin), ‘Art at Home’, 167a Victoria St, London SW, bought for one guinea (£1 and one shilling) on 10 May 1909, 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/71146 PEOPLE ------------------- Moses TECHNIQUES ---------- White earthenware moulded in three parts, with 5cm diameter circular hole containing a separately moulded half-bowl to the front, and pearlware glazed. Painted with black, grey, green, blue, red, pink, orange and flesh-pink enamels, and gilt. The base is concave and glazed. Only the back of Moses is moulded; there is a vent hole 14.5cm from the bottom. press moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- painting TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing TECHNIQUES ---------- gilding CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware DATING ------ creation date: 1860 - 1875 creation date earliest: 1860 creation date latest: 1875 culture: 19th Century, Mid# culture: Victoria I CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified factory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Depth units: cm value: 7.5 dimension: Depth units: in value: 3 dimension: Height units: cm value: 31 dimension: Height units: in value: 12.25 dimension: Width units: cm value: 13 dimension: Width units: in value: 5.125 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Victorian Staffordshire Figures 1835-1875, Book Two: religious, hunters, pastoral, occupations, children & animals, dogs, animals, cottages & castles, sport & miscellaneous Staffordshire Portrait 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