IDENTIFIERS
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id:	74605
accession number:	C.34-1930

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Wednesday 11 January 2023

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: 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.
object type: earthenware figure decorated with coloured lead-glazes
title:	figure

NOTES
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type: history note
value: 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.


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
creditline: Purchased with the Glaisher Fund

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/74605





TECHNIQUES
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press-moulding

CATEGORIES
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category: lead-glazed earthenware
category: pearlware
category: coloured glazed figures

DATING
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creation date:	1780 - 1795
creation date earliest:	1780
creation date latest:	1795
culture:	18th Century, Late
culture:	George III

CREATORS
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maker: Wood, Ralph, II
maker: Unidentified Staffordshire factory

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 13.1

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 5



CITATIONS
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Earle Collection of early Staffordshire pottery
Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge
English Earthenware Figures 1740-1840
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