Current Location: In storage
Titles
Temperance
Maker(s)
Factory:
Wood, Ralph, II
(Probably)
Entities
Categories
Description
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.
Notes
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
Legal notes
Purchased with the Glaisher Fund
Measurements and weight
Height: 18.7 cm
Width: 8.8 cm
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Bought
(1930-11-14)
by
Sotheby's
Dating
18th Century, Late
George III
Circa
1782
-
Circa
1795
Note
Probably made at Burslem in the factory of Ralph Wood II (d. 1795), or possibly his son Ralph Wood III (d. 1805).
Components of the work
Decoration
composed of
lead-glaze
( green, pale greyish-blue, brown, and black)
Base
Depth 6.8 cm
Materials used in production
Earthenware
Techniques used in production
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.
References and bibliographic entries
Identification numbers
Accession number: C.36-1930
Primary reference Number: 74676
Glaisher Addition number: GL.Add.5-1930
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Saturday 6 August 2011
Updated: Tuesday 30 April 2024
Last processed: Tuesday 15 July 2025
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
