IDENTIFIERS
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id:	71190
accession number:	C.1027-1928

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Monday 18 December 2023

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: The oval base is flattened to the front and bears the two-line title 'KING OF / SARDINIA' in raised gilt capitals. The King stands at ease, his left hand on his hip and his right resting on a short pillar, over which his ermine-trimmed cloak is draped. The figure is mainly white, with features picked out in enamels and gilt. He wears military uniform, with a long cut-away jacket, sash, sword, star and loops of braid hanging from his right shoulder, all decorated in gilt. There are black enamel touches on the cloak, to suggest ermine. The King has a long black beard and moustache, his eyebrows are finely painted and his cheeks pink flushed. The underside is concave and glazed. The back is moulded, with a vent hole 16 cm from the bottom.
object type: White earthenware figure moulded in three parts and pearlware glazed. Painted with black, red and flesh-pink enamels, and gilt.
title:	figure

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Bought in Cambridge on 8 February 1909, for 15/- (fifteen shillings), by Dr Glaisher, Trinity College, Cambridge


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
collection:	J. W. L. Glaisher
creditline: Dr J.W.L.Glaisher Bequest

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/71190

PEOPLE
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Victor Emmanuel II
King of Sardinia
King of Prussia

SUBJECTS
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Crimean War
Unification of Italy



TECHNIQUES
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White earthenware moulded in three parts and pearlware glazed. Painted with black, red and flesh-pink enamels, and gilt. The underside is concave and glazed. The back is moulded, with a vent hole 16 cm from the bottom
press-moulding
TECHNIQUES
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lead-glazing

CATEGORIES
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category: lead-glazed earthenware

DATING
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creation date:	1855 - 1860
creation date earliest:	1855
creation date latest:	1860
culture:	19th Century, Mid#
culture:	Victorian

CREATORS
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maker: Unidentified factory

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Depth
units: cm
value: 10

dimension: Depth
units: in
value: 3.875

dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 42.5

dimension: Height
units: in
value: 16.75

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 16

dimension: Width
units: in
value: 6.25



CITATIONS
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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 One: portraits, naval & military, theatrical & literary characters
Staffordshire Portrait Figures of the Victorian Age
Staffordshire Portrait Figures
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