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Fisher Boy: C.34-1930

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Titles

Fisher Boy

Maker(s)

Potter: Wood, Ralph, II (Perhaps)
Production: Unidentified Staffordshire factory

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Description

Earthenware figure decorated with coloured lead-glazes

Off-white earthenware, press-moulded, and decorated with clear blue-tinted, blue, green, a little yellow, and dark brown lead-glazes. The boy stands in front of a tree stump on a small circular mound base, which is hollow and unglazed underneath. His skin is bluish-white and his eyes are picked out in dark brown. He wears a pale green cap with a long tail at the back, a bluish-white shirt with a frilled collar, a blue coat, a small blue apron, bluish-white trunks, and dark brown boots. He holds up his apron which is full of shells.

Notes

History note: John Henry Taylor (1849-1930); sold Sotheby's, 14th November 1930, Catalogue of the Valuable Collections of English Pottery & Porcelain, Glass, Objects of Vertu and Furniture, the Property of the late John Henry Taylor, Esq., Newstead, Birstall, Leicestershire, lot 585.

Legal notes

Purchased with the Glaisher Fund

Measurements and weight

Height: 13.1 cm
Width: 5 cm

Acquisition and important dates

Method of acquisition: Bought (1930-11-14) by Sotheby's

Dating

18th Century, Late
George III
Circa 1780 - Circa 1795

Note

The facial features of this figure are different from typical Ralph Wood figures, and it may have been made by another factory. It is also known with the small mound mounted on a square base decorated with a garland across the front (Royal Pavilion Brighton, HW1194)

Components of the work

Decoration composed of lead-glaze ( in translucent blue-tinted, blue, green, dark brown, and yellow,)

Materials used in production

Earthenware

Techniques used in production

Press-moulding

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Identification numbers

Accession number: C.34-1930
Primary reference Number: 74605
Glaisher Addition number: Gl.Add.8-1930

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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