IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 74767 accession number: C.39-1930 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 13 December 2022 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Cream earthenware, press-moulded, and decorated with clear and coloured glazes: green, pale yellow, pale brown, manganese-brown, dark brown, and a little blue. The figure is supported on a low square base with straight sides covered with clear very slightly blue tinted glaze. It is hollow underneath and has a ventilation hole under the figure. The girl stands with her feet apart next to a tree stump on a mound with roughly fluted pale brown sides, and a green top, decorated with two green applied flowers and leaves. She faces to the front with her head turned slightly to her left. Her left arm hangs down by her side, and her right is curved around a small keg which rests on top of the tree stump. Perched on top of her head is a low crowned hat with a wide brim, and she wears a green bodice laced over a chemise and stomacher, a pale yellow kerchief with blue spots, a brown skirt with an apron looped up over the front, and dark brown shoes with yellow markings. object type: earthenware figure of a girl haymaker decorated with clear and coloured glazes title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: John Henry Taylor collection; 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 595 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/74767 PEOPLE ------------------- hay maker TECHNIQUES ---------- cream earthenware, press-moulded in parts, assembled, and decorated with clear and coloured lead-glazes press-moulding CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware DATING ------ creation date: 1783 - 1800 creation date earliest: 1783 creation date latest: 1800 culture: 18th Century, Late CREATORS -------- maker: Wood, John (II) maker: Wood, Ralph, II DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 19.3 dimension: Width value: 8.4 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge English Earthenware Figures 1740-1840 The Henry H. Weldon Collection, English Pottery 1650-1800 --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_39_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_39_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_39_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_39_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_39_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_39_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_39_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_39_1930_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels