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Duck
Production: Unidentified Staffordshire factory
White stoneware duck with dark brown slip eyes and salt-glaze.
White stoneware, press-moulded, with dark brown slip details and salt-glaze. The duck has no feet or legs and instead is supported on a circular base which is hollow underneath. The duck has a fan-shaped tail. Its body, wings and tail are integrally moulded with scale-like patterns and long feathers. Its raised neck and bill are bare. The eyes are painted in with dark-brown slip and there is a splash of slip on its right wing. The whole is a rather muddy white, and the neck and much of the body are slightly discoloured and are speckled with minute black spots.
History note: Stewart Acton, a dealer in Brighton, from whom purchased for £25 on 22 November 1923 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge. Acton had sent the duck on approval to Ramsgate where Glaisher was staying.
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 12.7 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, Mid
George II
Circa
1745
-
1755
Eyes
composed of
slip
( dark brown)
Surface
composed of
salt-glaze
Press-moulding : Off-white press-moulded stoneware, with eyes painted in dark brown slip, and salt-glaze
Accession number: C.802-1928
Primary reference Number: 76124
Old object number: 4262
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
This record can be cited in the Harvard Bibliographic style using the text below:
The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "Duck" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/76124 Accessed: 2024-12-22 23:36:58
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