IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 75031 accession number: C.42-1930 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Tuesday 1 November 2022 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Cream earthenware, press-moulded, and decorated with coloured lead-glazes; pale bluish-green, green, yellow, and three shades of brown. The woman stands on a mound base with rocks on its top. She has her right foot raised on one of the rocks. Her head is turned slightly to her left and she holds out her left arm, to display the lost coin in her hand. In her right hand she holds the handle of a broom, the head of which rests on the mound beside her right foot. Her hair is dressed in an elaborate style with curls at the front, and three strands hanging down over her shoulders. She wears a low-necked, loosely-fitting brown dress, over a white skirt with a yellow bow at the front, and has sandals on her feet. object type: earthenware figure of a woman decorated with coloured lead glazes, illustrating the Parable of the Lost Piece 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 596 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/75031 PEOPLE ------------------- Taylor, John Henry SUBJECTS ------------------- parable TECHNIQUES ---------- cream earthenware, press-moulded in parts, assembled, and decorated with lead glazes coloured faintly blue, green, yellow, and three shades of brown press-moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- lead-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware category: coloured glazed figures DATING ------ creation date: 1783 - 1795 creation date earliest: 1783 creation date latest: 1795 culture: 18th Century, Late CREATORS -------- maker: Wood, Ralph, II DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 21 dimension: Width value: 9.2 CITATIONS -------- Staffordshire Pottery Figures Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge English Earthenware Figures 1740-1840 --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_42_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_42_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_42_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_42_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_42_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_42_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_42_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_42_1930_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_42_1930_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/mid_C_42_1930_283_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_42_1930_283_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/preview_C_42_1930_283_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_42_1930_284_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/mid_C_42_1930_284_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_42_1930_284_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/preview_C_42_1930_284_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels