IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 71192 accession number: C.1029-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 30 April 2024 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- 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 ----- 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 --------- 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/71192 PEOPLE ------------------- Alexander II, Tsar of Russia Alfred, Prince Edinburgh, Duke of Victoria (1837-1901) Edinburgh, Duchess of Marie Alexandrovna, Grand Duchess of Russia SUBJECTS ------------------- marriage TECHNIQUES ---------- 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 ---------- painting TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing TECHNIQUES ---------- gilding CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware DATING ------ creation date: 1874 - 1874 creation date earliest: 1874 creation date latest: 1874 culture: 19th Century, Mid culture: Victoria I CREATORS -------- maker: Sampson Smith DIMENSIONS ---------- 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 -------- 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 --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_1029_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_1029_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_1029_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_1029_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_1029_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_1029_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_1029_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_1029_1928_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels