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Boy on a Recumbent Lion
Maker: Unidentified Staffordshire Pottery
White salt-glazed stoneware figure of a boy on a lion's back
Off-white stoneware, press-moulded, decorated with brown slip for the boy's eyes and salt-glazed. The piece was made in two halves and joined together. The boy reclines on his side on the recumbent lion's back, holding a plant in front of himself.
History note: Sidney Hand of Grafton Street, W.1, from whom purchased for £17, on 9 June 1922 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge.
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 7.5 cm
Length: 9.9 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, Mid
George II
Circa
1745
CE
-
1755
CE
This model was probably based on a Dehua figure of the Bodhisatva Manjusri (Wenshu).
Eyes
composed of
slip
( brown)
Surface
composed of
salt-glaze
off-white Stoneware
Press-moulding
: Press-moulded white stoneware, painted in brown slip, and salt-glazed
Salt-glazing
Accession number: C.794-1928
Primary reference Number: 76068
Old object number: 3785
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Boy on a Recumbent Lion" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/76068 Accessed: 2024-11-17 16:19:47
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