IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 71186 accession number: C.1023B-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 30 April 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: The round to oval base is inscribed ‘LADY FRANKLIN’, painted in partly-incised gilt capitals with three gilt strokes to either side. The figure is mainly white, with features picked out in enamels and gilt, and stands on brown painted ground. She wears a gown with full sleeves; a two-tier flounced apron or petticoat decorated with gold motifs; a green necklace; a pink and green flower coronet; orange drop earrings; and black shoes. Her left arm is raised to waist height, her right holds the tasselled ends of her gilded girdle. The underside is concave and glazed. The back is moulded, with a vent hole 4.5cm from the bottom. object type: White earthenware figure moulded in three parts, with separately moulded left hand, and lead glazed. Painted with brown, black green, pink and flesh-pink enamels, and gilt. title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Mr Delves at Rye; bought with figure of Sir John Franklin 14 November 1911 for 30 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/71186 PEOPLE ------------------- Franklin, John, Sir Franklin, Lady Jane SUBJECTS ------------------- Ballad Tasmania TECHNIQUES ---------- White earthenware moulded in three parts, with separately moulded left hand, and lead glazed. Painted with brown, black green, pink and flesh-pink enamels. The underside is concave and glazed. The back is moulded, with a vent hole 4.5cm from the bottom. press moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- painting TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing TECHNIQUES ---------- gilding CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware DATING ------ creation date: 1850 - 1850 creation date earliest: 1850 creation date latest: 1850 culture: 19th Century, Mid culture: Victoria I CREATORS -------- maker: Alpha factory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Depth units: cm value: 8.5 dimension: Depth units: in value: 3.375 dimension: Height units: cm value: 27 dimension: Height units: in value: 10.5 dimension: Width units: cm value: 10.5 dimension: Width units: in value: 4.25 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 1 March 1974 Staffordshire Figures Staffordshire Chimney Ornaments Staffordshire Portrait Figures --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_1023B_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_1023B_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_1023B_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_1023B_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_1023B_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_1023B_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_1023B_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_1023B_1928_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels