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Woman and Child
Factory: Unidentified
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.
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.
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 18.3 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, Late
Circa
1775
CE
-
1820
CE
Attribution to Delft uncertain
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( green, yellow, brownish-orange, and manganese-purple)
Visible Surfaces
composed of
tin-glaze
Base
Width 7.5 cm
buff Earthenware
Press-moulding : Buff earthenware, press-moulded, tin-glazed, and painted in green, yellow, brownish-orange, and manganese-purple high-temperature colours
Accession number: C.2775-1928
Primary reference Number: 74056
Old object number: 4050b
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Woman and Child" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/74056 Accessed: 2024-11-05 12:43:39
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