IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 76043 accession number: C.780-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Sunday 21 November 2021 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: White salt-glazed stoneware, decorated with piercing and with brown clay and slip datails. The couple are seated on narrow settle, the high back of which is pierced by a cross surrounded by four small circles alternating with four hearts. Above is a narrow strip of clay decorated with stamped flowers. The top of the settle has been broken off in an irregular sloping line. The arms are striped in brown and white clay, and the lower part of its back is pierced by six arched openings of unequal size. Both figures are facing the front. The woman wears a pleated cap, a brown necklace, a brown stomacher into which she has tucked her fan, a bodice with spotted sleeves and brown cuffs, a brown and white striped skirt and a long white apron. Her hands are clasped in front of her over her skirt. The man sits with his feet apart and his hands resting on his thighs. He wears a long curling wig, a waistcoat and coat with many button holes, and shoes with a brown pseudo-pompom. title: figure group NOTES ----- type: history note value: J. Bateman, 42 Gloucester Green, Oxford; from whom bought for £30 on 19 July 1912 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: J. W. L. Glaisher creditline: Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/76043 CATEGORIES ------ category: stoneware DATING ------ creation date: 1745 - 1750 creation date earliest: 1745 creation date latest: 1750 culture: 18th Century, Mid culture: George II CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Depth units: cm value: 8 dimension: Width units: cm value: 19.5 dimension: Width units: cm value: 19.8 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge English Saltglazed Earthenware. "Saltglaze" with the Notes of a Collector --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/C_780_1928_281_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/mid_C_780_1928_281_29.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/C_780_1928_281_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/preview_C_780_1928_281_29.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/C_780_1928_282_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/mid_C_780_1928_282_29.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/C_780_1928_282_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/preview_C_780_1928_282_29.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels