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Lady and Gentleman in an Arbour
Production: Unidentified Staffordshire factory
White stoneware with brown slip details and salt-glaze. The lovers are seated on a rounded three sided hollow rock base under an arbour formed of separately moulded vine leaves rising from the rock behind them. The lady (on the viewer's right) has her right arm around the gentleman's waist, and his left arm is around her shoulder with the hand resting on the left side of her head The gentleman is seated with his legs crossed. He has raised her skirt to reveal her right lower leg, and the lady places her hand on his as if to prevent further advances - or perhaps to encourage them? She wears a round cap, a jacket with elbow-length sleeves, and three ribbons across her stomacher, over a long full skirt. He wears a cravat and shirt, a waistcoat ,and a coat with eight buttons over knee-length breeches. Both figures have rather full cheeks, and their eyes are picked out in dark brown slip.
History note: Acquired from a private collector by Mr Stoner [George], Stoner & Evans, London; purchased from him on 15 June 1910 for £55 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 17.8 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, Mid
George II
Circa
1750
-
1755
Eyes
composed of
slip
( dark brown)
Surface
composed of
salt-glaze
off-white Stoneware
Moulding
: Off-white stoneware, moulded in parts, assembled, eyes painted in dark-brown slip, and salt-glazed
Salt-glazing
Accession number: C.803-1928
Primary reference Number: 76125
Old object number: 3127
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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