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The Goddess Diana
Production: Unidentified Staffordshire factory
Cream earthenware decorated with oxide colours under lead-glaze
Dark cream earthenware, press-moulded, and painted with random splashes of slate-blue, green, yellow, and manganese-purple oxide colours which have run under lead-glaze. The goddess is supported on a slight mound on a rectangular pedestal with mouldings round the upper and lower edges. Its inside is hollow and glazed. Diana has her head turned a little tot her left, and stands on her left leg with her right bent at the knee and projecting from her skirt. Her left hand is behind her back, and in her right holds a small animal. She wears a long-sleeved, long dress with a wide sash, A small hound is seated beside her left leg and gazes up towards her. The eyes of Diana and the hound are inlaid in brown clay..
History note: Mr W. F. Greenward & Son, 24 Stonegate, York, from whom purchased for £33 on 11 August 1922 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 7.2 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, third quarter#
George II or George III
Circa
1750
-
1770
Surface
composed of
lead-glaze
Decoration
composed of
oxide colours
Base
Depth 4.5 cm
Width 6.7 cm
cream Earthenware
Press-moulding : Dark cream earthenware, painted with random splashes of slate-blue, green, yellow, and manganese-purple oxide colours which have run under the lead-glaze
Accession number: C.828-1928
Primary reference Number: 76190
Old object number: 3857
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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The Fitzwilliam Museum (2024) "The Goddess Diana" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/76190 Accessed: 2024-11-05 08:01:19
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