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Woman and Child: C.2775-1928

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Current Location: In storage

Titles

Woman and Child

Maker(s)

Factory: Unidentified

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Description

Buff earthenware, moulded as a relief with a flat back, tin-glazed, and painted in green, yellow, brownish-orange and manganese-purple. The figure is supported on a green rectangular based with a shallow mound in the middle. The woman stands facing to the front, holding a nude infant on her left hip. She is dressed in classical style. The upper part of her body is nude except for green cross-over straps. Her lower part is covered by a partly yellow and partly brownish-orange skirt and a scarf of the same colours billows out on her right side.

Notes

History note: Mr Letts, 100-101 Great Russell Street, London, from whom purchased on 11 October 1916 with another figure for £3 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge.

Legal notes

Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest

Measurements and weight

Height: 18.3 cm

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr

Dating

18th Century, Late
Circa 1775 CE - 1820 CE

Note

Attribution to Delft uncertain

School or Style

Neoclassical

Components of the work

Decoration composed of high-temperature colours ( green, yellow, brownish-orange, and manganese-purple)
Visible Surfaces composed of tin-glaze
Base Width 7.5 cm

Materials used in production

buff Earthenware

Techniques used in production

Press-moulding : Buff earthenware, press-moulded, tin-glazed, and painted in green, yellow, brownish-orange, and manganese-purple high-temperature colours

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Identification numbers

Accession number: C.2775-1928
Primary reference Number: 74056
Old object number: 4050b

Audit data

Created: Saturday 6 August 2011 Updated: Tuesday 30 April 2024

Associated departments & institutions

Owner or interested party: The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department: Applied Arts

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