IDENTIFIERS
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id:	71192
accession number:	C.1029-1928

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 inscribed 'quote Duchess of Edinburgh'  in gilt script. The Duchess stands on rough ground, her left hand at her waist, her right holding a purse. The figure is mainly white, with features picked out in enamels and gilt. She wears a crown and veil, a necklace, a green sash and gold star, and a dress with full sleeves and a scoop neck edged in gilt. Her three tier flounced skirt is decorated with finely painted green and purple flowers and edged in red, a black shoe shows from under its hem. Her purse is decorated with a tiny pattern in blue. Her hair is brown, her eyes blue, and her brown eyebrows fine painted. The underside is concave and glazed. The back is moulded but undecorated, with a vent hole 14.5cm from the bottom.
object type: White earthenware, moulded in three parts and lead-glazed. Painted with black, brown, red, green, blue, purple and flesh-pink enamels, and gilt.
title:	figure

NOTES
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type: history note
value: London Opinion Curio Club, Regent St, London. Bought on 15 May 1909 for 30/- (thirty 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/71192

PEOPLE
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Alexander II, Tsar of Russia
Alfred, Prince
Edinburgh, Duke of
Victoria (1837-1901)
Edinburgh, Duchess of
Marie Alexandrovna, Grand Duchess of Russia

SUBJECTS
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marriage



TECHNIQUES
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White earthenware, moulded in three parts and lead-glazed. Painted with black, brown, red, green, blue, purple and flesh-pink enamels, and gilt. The underside is concave and glazed. The back is moulded but undecorated, with a vent hole 14.5cm from the bottom.
press moulding
TECHNIQUES
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painting
TECHNIQUES
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lead-glazing
TECHNIQUES
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gilding

CATEGORIES
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category: lead-glazed earthenware

DATING
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creation date:	1874 - 1874
creation date earliest:	1874
creation date latest:	1874
culture:	19th Century, Mid#
culture:	Victoria I

CREATORS
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maker: Sampson Smith

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Depth
units: cm
value: 14.5

dimension: Depth
units: in
value: 5.75

dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 44.5

dimension: Height
units: in
value: 17.5

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 17.8

dimension: Width
units: in
value: 7



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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