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Flora
Production: Unidentified Staffordshire factory
History note: Law Fowlsham & Cole, South Moulton Street, London, from whom bought for £9 on 11 November 1925 by Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 29.8 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, Late-19th Century, Early#
George III
Circa
1795
-
1815
Flora was the Roman goddess of flowers and spring, whose festival, Floralia, held at the end of April and beginning of May was instituted in 240 BCE. In art she was usually represented holding a flowers or a wreath of flowers.
When purchased by Dr Glaisher, the dealer, Mr Cole, attributed the figure to the Pratt factory 'because of the orange colour'. However, very few items are known marked Pratt, and by the late 20th century the name was being used as a generic term for underglaze painted ware and figures coloured in blue, green, yellow, orange, brown and black.
Decoration
composed of
high temperature colours
( blue, olive-green, yellow, orange and brown oxide colours)
Surface
Accession number: C.848-1928
Primary reference Number: 76221
Old object number: 4690
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) "Flora" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/76221 Accessed: 2024-11-25 08:20:53
To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
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|title=Flora
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2024-11-25 08:20:53|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/api/v1/objects/object-76221
To use this as a simple code embed, copy this string:
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