IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 74642 accession number: C.35-1930 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 22 November 2022 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: lead-glazed earthenware figure title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: F. Smiths (?), Blackpool; Alfred Harburn, MPS, Bishop Auckland; John Henry Taylor (1849-1930); sold Sotheby's, 14th November 1930, lot 587. 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 LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts creditline: Purchased with the Glaisher Fund STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/74642 PEOPLE ------------------- Taylor, John Henry (1849-1930) Harburn, Alfred shepherdess TECHNIQUES ---------- Cream earthenware, press-moulded, and decorated with clear blue tinted, and blue, green, yellow, pale manganese-brown, pale greenish-brown, and dark brown lead glazes. The figure is unglazed and hollow underneath. The shepherdess stands on a brown rocky base with a green flower on the front. She stands with her feet slightly apart facing towards the viewer. She holds a blue spotted bundle in her left hand, and has her right hand raised to hold her crook (missing). She wears a green hat, a blue stomacher, a green open robe over a white petticoat, and dark brown shoes. press-moulding CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware DATING ------ creation date: 1787 - 1801 creation date earliest: 1787 creation date latest: 1801 culture: 18th Century, Late CREATORS -------- maker: Wood, Ralph, II maker: Wood, Ralph, III DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 15.9 dimension: Width value: 5.6 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_35_1930_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/mid_C_35_1930_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_35_1930_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/preview_C_35_1930_281_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_35_1930_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/mid_C_35_1930_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_35_1930_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/preview_C_35_1930_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels