IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 76146 accession number: C.815-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Thursday 15 June 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: White salt-glazed stoneware painted in blue, green, pink, brown grey, and black enamels. The figure stands on a roughly oval base with a tree stump at the back, and a spray of green foliage at the front. Mezzetin stands on his left leg with his right leg extended behind him. His left hand hangs down and his right is extended towards the viewer. He wears a loose brown cap, a white frill round his neck, a blue jacket, brown breeches and black shoes. A bright pink cloak passes over his left shoulder and arm, and is wrapped around him. object type: white-salt-glazed stoneware painted in enamels title: figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: J.Henry Griffith Collection, 336 Hagley Road, Birmingham; Frank Stoner, London, from whom purchased on 5 October 1925 for £203 LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: J. W. L. Glaisher creditline: Dr J.W.L. Glaisher Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/76146 PEOPLE ------------------- Griffith, J. Henry Mezzetin SUBJECTS ------------------- acting acting TECHNIQUES ---------- press-moulded stoneware, salt-glazed, and painted in blue, green, pink, grey, and black enamels press-moulding TECHNIQUES ---------- salt-glazing CATEGORIES ------ category: stoneware category: white salt-glazed stoneware DATING ------ creation date: 1755 - 1760 creation date earliest: 1755 creation date latest: 1760 culture: 18th Century, third quarter# culture: George II CREATORS -------- maker: Unknown maker: Reinicke, Peter DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 11.5 EXHIBITIONS HISTORY ------------------- title: Plagiarism Personified? European Pottery and Porcelain Figures CITATIONS -------- Staffordshire Salt-glaze in the Collection of Mr J. Henry Griffith, Part II Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Plagiarism Personified? European Pottery and Porcelain Figures Histoire du théâtre italien German Porcelain of the 18th Century English Ceramics 1580-1830, A Commemorative Catalogue to Celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the English Ceramic Circle 1927-1977 A Collection of Fine English Pottery --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/C_815_1928_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/mid_C_815_1928_281_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/C_815_1928_281_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/preview_C_815_1928_281_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/C_815_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/mid_C_815_1928_282_29.jpg height: 649 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/C_815_1928_282_29.jpg height: 740 pixels width: 570 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa7/preview_C_815_1928_282_29.jpg height: 325 pixels width: 250 pixels