15929966050001312637261000Standard Recordobject-72012170810660654016129603880001708106603488fitz-onlineadlib-object-72012https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/720120bc97522-c95e-3374-ac1b-940be79b9cee5referenceagent-182213adlib-agent-18221363f42938-31bb-3637-b420-9e4cdf584e03Lever, Ashton, Sirreferenceterm-108348adlib-term-108348667e7a19-db33-3d85-bd9b-c2dafd8e02fftin-glazed earthenwarereferenceterm-110399adlib-term-110399c2c214aa-c7b2-3bbe-8460-214ed187b114English delftwarereferenceterm-113184adlib-term-11318425fc548d-d02f-39a6-a34f-d609393a0043J. W. L. Glaisherblue, manganese-purple, and a little yellowreferenceterm-110730adlib-term-110730dae0f074-4d74-3f73-9137-7e8bbb36a2cehigh-temperature colourDecorationin cobalt-blue, manganese-purple, and a little yellowreferenceterm-106226adlib-term-106226194567f2-2bcd-3446-ae31-652386611815paintingduck-egg bluereferenceterm-39575adlib-term-39575cdf6707a-1eeb-3622-a26b-6e54f1f8d4abtin-glazeFrontdark buff earthenware, moulded, the front tin-glazed duck-egg blue, and painted in blue, manganese-purple and a little yellow high-temperature (metallic oxide) colours; the reverse covered with lead-glaze which is tinged with green; the footring is pierced by a holeduck-egg bluereferenceterm-120059adlib-term-120059dfa315b5-819d-37ab-ab22-bddfdbb3cbe7tin-glazingreferenceterm-107733adlib-term-10773300160189-e3ce-3796-a88b-5aa8d6c808c4lead-glazeBackwith green-tinged areasreferenceterm-120062adlib-term-120062d05176fb-17b8-3888-bba1-6c5e6c77d206lead-glazingApplied Artsearthenware, tin-glazed duck-egg blue and painted in blue, manganese-purple and yellowDark buff earthenware, tin-glazed duck-egg blue, and painted in cobalt-blue and manganese-purple, with a little yellow; the reverse, covered with greenish lead-glaze. Circular with curved sides and slightly everted rim, standing on a footring. On the front are a cat, an owl and a monkey wearing top-knots and tippets, the last holding a mirror. Above is the title of a ballad: ` The Alo¬mode or ye Maidens Mode Admir'd & Cont¬inue'd By ye Ape Owl & Mistris Puss', and the date, 1688. Below are the verses of the ballad. The lower part of the design is painted with triangles to resemble a tiled floor. The edge is encircled by a narrow manganese-purple line and blue dashes. On the back, in a square, is a cross imposed over a fainter St Andrew cross.D.48referenceexhibition-1705adlib-exhibition-17058abde507-6c7b-3bf8-8526-89fa7dc7c0cdExhibition of Early English Earthenware96referenceexhibition-1706adlib-exhibition-1706078864c3-c1c6-3462-8281-af761d2fcabaEnglish Delftware Dishes from the Glaisher Collection120referenceexhibition-2376adlib-exhibition-23763e2208a0-ad25-3b64-b03f-cb63aa00fd02Treasured Possessions from the Renaissance to the EnlightenmentC.1443-19281accession numberC.1443-192872012priref72012old object number4774urihttps://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/72012https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/72012in a square, a cross imposed over a fainter St Andrew crosson the backpaintedmarkat the toppainted in blueThe Alomode or ye Maidens Mode Admir’d & Continue’d by ye Ape Owl & Mistris Pussinscriptionin five panels on the frontpainted in blueI am ye owl yt Stood In Feare
Of other Birds It doth appeare
But Being In this Dress I’le vow
I don’t Beleeue theyl know me now
I heare ye Clamors of ye Thown
Wherein they would run top knots down.
But yet alas, alas, al in vain;
For I this Mode will still Maintain
Top knots & night vailes I declare
For euermore I mean to ware
This dress ther’s non yt can excell,
I see it doth be Com Me well’.
‘Now, now, you females of this age
I would not haue you In a Rage
Although I doe present you heare
With what you haue Esteeme deare
Top Knots & night Rails you odore
But see by whom they now are wore.
Ye Cat shee weares In perfect View
A Cornet & a Top Knot too
Ye uery owl that flyee by night
In this your Mode takes mouch delight.
Ye Reason this for In a Storm
This Rail will keep her shoulders warm.
Ye uery ape, Adores this Dress
& Cryes It up, Can he doe Less
But females yt first found this pride
Pray tell me how can you Abide
To weare this mode against Controul
When used by ape, nay cat & owl’.inscriptionreferenceagent-149638adlib-agent-1496387376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8The Fitzwilliam MuseumDr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequestreferenceagent-152564adlib-agent-152564c20df94d-f096-3e0b-a9b5-6ddd12161fb7Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr192819281928-12-07bequeathedEntry date: 1928-12-071688CE1688dated1688probablypotteryreferenceagent-161437adlib-agent-161437dea10bf3-4dae-3014-8cda-908887663785Brislington PotteryA copy of the ballad is in the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC.Formerly attributed to London, but probably made at Brislington, near Bristol. The animals and verses were copied from an undated broadsheet ballad, 'The Alomode Dress, or the Maidens Mode Admir'd and Continued by the Ape, Owl and Mistris Puss' of which an example is in the Folger Shakespeare Library, in Washington DC. The painter changed the face of the cat, which is female in the ballad, to a leonine more masculine face, and missed out two very small animals in the background. The animals are wearing headdresses made of pleated ribbons with lace cornets hanging down on either side of their faces, and the owl and ape have short capes called night vailes round their shoulders. The writer of the verses asked if women wanted to go on wearing top knots now that they were being worn by animals like these. At the time cat was slang for a prostitute, owls were considered foolish, and apes vain and undiscriminating.referenceterm-106453adlib-term-10645360056370-7375-3dac-996c-6cc9d5db35a917th Century, Latereferenceterm-113534adlib-term-113534cadd0cd3-aded-384c-a37e-c3d7338b00e9James IIreferenceterm-113529adlib-term-1135295898861a-6410-3868-bc4e-ca25f0921043literalEnglandEnglandcountryliteralSomersetSomersetregionprobably BrislingtonBrislingtonreferenceterm-106216adlib-term-106216825b8379-ec94-388e-9a59-624e40c090d0literalEnglandEnglandcountrypossiblyLondonreferenceterm-42861adlib-term-428615b368285-f1a8-3dcf-a5b2-637fd3c3956cearthenwareDiametercm39Heightcm8.3referencemedia-186954adlib-media-186954cb850350-919f-3189-b4cd-eae8660f3c09jpegaa/aa30/c_1443_1928_1_201011_mfj22_mas.jpg1heightpixels1024widthpixels97316162779247641imagejpegaa/aa30/mid_c_1443_1928_1_201011_mfj22_mas.jpg1heightpixels526widthpixels50016162779247641imagejpegaa/aa30/c_1443_1928_1_201011_mfj22_mas.jpg1heightpixels1024widthpixels97316162779247641imagejpegaa/aa30/preview_c_1443_1928_1_201011_mfj22_mas.jpg1heightpixels263widthpixels25016162779247641image0media
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imagereferenceterm-90855adlib-term-90855b48207ec-774d-3e3e-8ab3-536996bc5dacdishchargerhistory noteSir Ashton Lever's Museum Leverianum, Leicester House, London, probably 1774-88; James Parkinson, exhibited at the Rotunda, south end of Blackfriars Bridge, London, until 1806; sold by King and Lochee, Catalogue of the Leverian Museum, May 5 1806 and following 65 days, on the eleventh day of the sale, Friday, 15 May, lot 1204 for 18s.0d.; sold to Dent. By c. 1910, Francis Bennett Goldney, M.P. for Canterbury (d. 1918); sold Puttick & Simpson, London, 4 March 1920, Decorative porcelain, pottery, silver plate, antique furniture and other works of art, lot 145; purchased for £325.10.0 by the dealer, Frank Stoner for Dr Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridgereferenceagent-149638adlib-agent-1496387376d833-d0a7-3be0-916e-9c892b7a24d8The Fitzwilliam Museumreferencepublication-3437adlib-publication-3437fe89a783-5ed8-312f-a4de-73106268a772Illustrated Catalogue of Early English EarthenwarePubl. Vol. I, pp. 183-4, no. 1443183-4referencepublication-1031adlib-publication-1031a5cc6cb3-2b6f-390a-af51-7e9d123e55edCatalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum CambridgePubl. p. 298, illustrated298-99referencepublication-200002256adlib-publication-2000022564e24fbd5-cbad-3195-ab8d-a0dfb5032232Two Pottery Speciments from the Museum LeverianumRef. and mentioned, p. 161, note 16161referencepublication-200001179adlib-publication-2000011796b95e868-6f2b-3bb7-9fc6-b8db29e20e19Delftware from BrislingtonPubl. p. 34, no. 9634referencepublication-3433adlib-publication-343316800edf-2013-3a93-9c14-0133132d1256English Delftware Dishes from the Glaisher Collectionreferencepublication-2350adlib-publication-23505aab1afa-9420-3434-bf6d-916548bbc26bDated English Delftwarereferencepublication-7519adlib-publication-751966216bb6-1f3a-3a73-a29c-2d840342ae63Delftware in the Fitzwilliam MuseumPubl. p. 133, Fig. 145, and p. 168, Cat. 120133, 168referencepublication-7751adlib-publication-7751cfa79c6e-ae29-31e3-85fa-3a838db1be3cTreasured Possessions from the Renaissance to the EnlightenmentRef.61-92referencepublication-200002257adlib-publication-200002257c089dbe3-60e9-3e5a-a181-de73250266e7Sir Ashton Lever of Alkrington, and his Museum 1729-1788Ref.42-9referencepublication-200001274adlib-publication-20000127433e484f4-075d-35f5-976c-64c0074530afCeramic Discoveries in London's Eighteenth Century Leverian MuseumRef. For a discussion of eight pro- and anti- top knot broadside ballads - but not this one or the other animal ballad in the Folger Shakespeasre Library337-57referencepublication-200002947adlib-publication-200002947d796e062-eb9f-3f24-ab19-79e3cfef1635Top Knots and Lower Sorts: Print and Promiscuous Consumption in the 1690sanimalreferenceterm-106263adlib-term-10626326defd1a-3e3f-3c78-aeff-41fa6b29619dcatanimalreferenceterm-106793adlib-term-10679322b6e359-d3ca-39fd-a07c-7e014e8e7bd3owlanimalreferenceterm-92145adlib-term-92145e3b08aac-6ac6-32d1-bb95-0f77f3dbc2abmonkeyobject namereferenceterm-43733adlib-term-437330227e536-9ae4-3d64-8ad8-fdfff2a83f58mirrorobject namereferenceterm-130725adlib-term-13072554f93a55-949c-3fa1-89e1-56e5276746acBalladsubjectreferenceterm-118885adlib-term-118885112ca5bf-4771-372e-9e8d-9923da2a9239costumeliteralcatcatliteralowlowlliteralmonkeymonkeyliteralmirrormirrorliteralBalladBalladliteralcostumecostumereferenceterm-90855adlib-term-90855b48207ec-774d-3e3e-8ab3-536996bc5dacdishdishobject
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