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Lady wearing a Sack Dress
Production: Unidentified Staffordshire Pottery
Dark brown and white marbled clays (solid agateware) press-moulded, with splashes of blue, and salt-glaze. The lady stands facing the front. Her hair is drawn back from her forehead and into a chignon behind. She wears a skirt with vertical stripes or tucks over a hoop, a stomacher, and a jacket bodice with a sack back (a pet-en-lair). and wide flounced sleeves. Round her neck has a double ruched ribbon neck band.
History note: Harold Davis, 39 King Street, St James’s, London; from whom purchased for £150 on 1 October 1928 with another similar figure, by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Depth: 5 cm
Height: 14 cm
Width: 8 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, Mid
George II
Circa
1750
CE
-
1760
CE
Decoration
composed of
cobalt oxide
( blue)
Sholw
dark brown and white clays
Stoneware
Salt-glaze
Press-moulding : Dark brown and white marbled clays (solid agateware), press-moulded in two halves with a separate white clay front to the head, faintly painted on the stomacher and skirt with four splashes of blue, and salt-glazed
Inscription present: rectangular white stick-on label with cut top corners
Accession number: C.782-1928
Primary reference Number: 76050
Old object number: 5095
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Lady wearing a Sack Dress" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/76050 Accessed: 2024-12-18 14:02:58
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