IDENTIFIERS
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id:	76204
accession number:	C.836-1928

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Friday 15 December 2023

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: 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.
object type: cream earthenware press-moulded,splashed and streaked in manganese-brown under lead-glaze.
title:	animal figure

NOTES
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type: history note
value: 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


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
collection:	J. W. L. Glaisher
creditline: Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/76204


SUBJECTS
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monkey
monkey



TECHNIQUES
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press-moulding

CATEGORIES
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category: lead-glazed earthenware

DATING
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creation date:	1755 - 1770
creation date earliest:	1755
creation date latest:	1770
culture:	18th Century, third quarter#
culture:	George II or George III

CREATORS
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maker: Unidentified Staffordshire factory

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 9.8



CITATIONS
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Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge
English Earthenware Figures 1740-1840
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