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Temperance
Factory: Wood, Ralph, II (Probably)
Earthenware figure decorated with coloured lead-glazes
Pale buff earthenware, press-moulded, and decorated with green, greyish pale-blue, brown, and black lead-glazes. The underside of the base is open and unglazed. Temperance, represented as a woman, stands on a roughly circular rocky base coloured green beside a pile of masonry supporting a jar with water issuing from its mouth. She faces to the front and rests her left hand on the top of the masonry. Herbrown hair is dressed in a chignon at the back of her head with tresses hanging down from it onto her shoulders. She wears a long green dress, with a low neck and elbow-length sleeves which is open at the front to show a black stomacher and petticoat, and black shoes. The black glaze has run down onto the top of the base.
History note: John Henry Taylor (1849-1930); sold Sotheby's, 14 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 597
Purchased with the Glaisher Fund
Height: 18.7 cm
Width: 8.8 cm
Method of acquisition: Bought (1930-11-14) by Sotheby's
18th Century, Late
George III
Circa
1782
-
Circa
1795
Probably made at Burslem in the factory of Ralph Wood II (d. 1795), or possibly his son Ralph Wood III (d. 1805).
Decoration
composed of
lead-glaze
( green, pale greyish-blue, brown, and black)
Base
Depth 6.8 cm
Press-moulding : PPale buff earthenware, press-moulded, and decorated with green, greyish pale-blue, brown, and black lead-glazes. The underside of the base is open and unglazed.
Accession number: C.36-1930
Primary reference Number: 74676
Glaisher Addition number: GL.Add.5-1930
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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