IDENTIFIERS
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id:	76059
accession number:	C.790-1928

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Thursday 15 June 2023

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: dark brown and white marbled clays (solid agateware), press-moulded and salt-glazed. The cat is seated with its head turned towards the viewer. It holds a white rat or very large mouse in its mouth.
title:	animal figure

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Bryan T. Harland Collection; Puttick & Simpson, 22 May 1925, Harland Sale, lot 180; bought for £5.5s. 0d.with C.786-1928 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
collection:	J. W. L. Glaisher
creditline: Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/76059


SUBJECTS
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cat
rat
cat
rat



TECHNIQUES
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solid dark brown and white agateware, press-moulded in two halves and joined, with an applied moulded white stoneware mouse or rat, and salt-glazed
press-moulded

CATEGORIES
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category: stoneware
category: salt-glazed agateware

DATING
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creation date:	1740 - 1760
creation date earliest:	1740
creation date latest:	1760
culture:	18th Century, Mid
culture:	George II

CREATORS
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maker: Unidentified Staffordshire Pottery

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 10.4

dimension: Width
units: cm
value: 5.9



CITATIONS
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Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge
Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Ceramics, Catalogue of English Porcelain, Earthenware, Enamels and Glass collected by Charles Schreiber Esq., M.P., and the Lady Charlotte Elizabeth Schreiber, and presented to the Museum in 1884, Volume II, Earthenware
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