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Charity
Production: Unidentified Staffordshire factory (Probably)
Earthenware painted in yellow, brown and dark brown under lead-glaze. A woman wearing a hooded robe, holding a baby in her arms, and a little boy standing beside her on a square base.
Cream earthenware, press-moulded, painted in yellow, orange, and dark brown under slightly blue tinted lead-glaze. The square base is open underneath but only the area below the figure is glazed. Charity stands looking downwards at a baby held to her breast in her left arm and has her right arm extended to the side (lower part missing). She has long brown hair, eyes and eyebrows, and wears a long yellow dress scattered with dabs of brown, and an orange cloak which covers her head and extends to the ground at the back. A nude little boy coloured orange stands close beside her left side and and shelters beneath her cloak. The sides of the base are coloured dark brown.
History note: A cottage at Lolworth, Cambs; bought by Stanley Woolston of Cambridge, who sold it for £1 on 7 March1910 to Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 21.8 cm
Width: 11 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
18th Century, Late-19th Century, Early#
Circa
1790
-
1805
The attribution to Staffordshire is uncertain.
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( yellow, brown, and dark brown metallic oxide colours)
Base
Depth 8 cm
Width 8.5 cm
Surface
cream Earthenware
Press-moulding : Cream earthenware, press-moulded, painted in yellow, orange, and dark brown under slightly blue tinted lead-glaze. The square base is open underneath but only the area below the figure is glazed
Inscription present: rectangular white paper stick on label with blue line edgeing on three sides and plant motif in upper two corners
Accession number: C.849-1928
Primary reference Number: 76222
Old object number: 3143
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) "Charity" Web page available at: https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/76222 Accessed: 2024-11-05 14:46:55
To cite this record on Wikipedia you can use this code snippet:
{{cite web|url=https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/id/object/76222
|title=Charity
|author=The Fitzwilliam Museum|accessdate=2024-11-05 14:46:55|publisher=The
University of Cambridge}}
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https://collection.beta.fitz.ms/api/v1/objects/object-76222
To use this as a simple code embed, copy this string:
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