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Seated Monkey
Production: Unidentified Staffordshire factory
Cream earthenware press-moulded,splashed and streaked in manganese-brown under lead-glaze.
Dark cream earthenware, press-moulded, and decorated with random splashes and streaks of manganese-brown under lead-glaze. The monkey is seated on a shallow rectangular base with wavy sides, which is concave and glazed underneath, and has a ventilation hole under the figure. The monkey is seated with its right paw on its right thigh, and its left paw raised to put a fruit or other food into its mouth.
History note: Puttick & Simpson, London, 22 May 1925, lot 164; bought by Mack (the porter) for £5.5s on behalf of Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 9.8 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, third quarter#
George II or George III
Circa
1755
-
1770
The figure was attributed to Thomas Whieldon in Rackham's 1935 Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection, (1935)
Decoration
composed of
oxide colour
( manganese-brown)
Surface
composed of
lead-glaze
Base
Length 8.2 cm
Width 5.5 cm
cream Earthenware
Inscription present: part of a rectangular white paper label with a blue line edging
Accession number: C.836-1928
Primary reference Number: 76204
Old object number: 4538
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) "Seated Monkey" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/76204 Accessed: 2024-12-22 12:46:41
To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
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|title=Seated Monkey
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2024-12-22 12:46:41|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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