Current Location: In storage
Titles
The Spinario
Maker(s)
Factory:
Unidentified Staffordshire factory
(Probably)
Entities
Categories
Description
White salt-glazed stoneware
White salt-glazed stoneware, the figure possibly slip-cast, the base press-moulded, and having a small round ventilation hole under the figure. The base is rectangular with incurved sides. Applied to its top is a shallow oval area of ground with on its left end a low stone or tree stump on which the Spinario is seated. He has shoulder-length hair curling back from his forehead, and is nude apart from a flower which conceals his genitals. He has his right leg outstretched and his left raised and bent at the knee so that the foot rests on his right thigh. He holds the foot with his left hand and pulls the thorn from the heel with his right.
Notes
History note: Mr A.E. Clarke, Cambridge; Cyril Andrade, Duke Street, St James's, London, from whom purchased in 1919 for £30 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Legal notes
Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest
Measurements and weight
Height: 13.5 cm
Width: 14 cm
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed
(1928-12-07)
by
Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
Dating
18th Century, third quarter
George II
Circa
1755
CE
-
1760
CE
Note
This figure was probably inspired by the bronze Spinario in the Palazzo dei Conservatori in Rome, or a later copy, although it sits on a lower stump and therefore has its right leg more outstretched than the original.
School or Style
Neoclassical
People, subjects and objects depicted
Components of the work
Surface
composed of
salt-glaze
Base
Figure
Materials used in production
Stoneware
Techniques used in production
Salt-glazing
References and bibliographic entries
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Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge
page(s): 110
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Early Staffordshire Pottery
page(s): 27
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Plagiarism Personified? European Pottery and Porcelain Figures
page(s): 68
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Taste and the Antique. The Lure of Classical Sculpture 1500-1900
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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
page(s): 53
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The Incomparable Art. English Pottery from the Thomas Greg Collection
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The Henry H. Weldon Collection, English Pottery 1650-1800
page(s): 326-7
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The Jean and Kenneth Chorley Collection
page(s): 54
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White Salt-glazed Stoneware of the British Isles
page(s): 106
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Important English Pottery, The Harriet Carlton Goldweitz Collection
page(s): 156
Related exhibitions
Identification numbers
Accession number: C.808-1928
Primary reference Number: 76131
Old object number: 4065
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Saturday 6 August 2011
Updated: Tuesday 30 April 2024
Last processed: Tuesday 15 July 2025
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
