Current Location: In storage
Titles
Charity
Maker(s)
Production:
Unidentified Staffordshire factory
(Probably)
Entities
Categories
Description
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.
Notes
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
Legal notes
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Measurements and weight
Height: 21.8 cm
Width: 11 cm
Acquisition and important dates
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed
(1928-12-07)
by
Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
Dating
18th Century, Late-19th Century, Early
Circa
1790
-
1805
Note
The attribution to Staffordshire is uncertain.
School or Style
Neoclassical
People, subjects and objects depicted
Components of the work
Decoration
composed of
high-temperature colours
( yellow, brown, and dark brown metallic oxide colours)
Base
Depth 8 cm
Width 8.5 cm
Surface
Materials used in production
cream
Earthenware
Techniques used in production
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 or legends present
Inscription present: rectangular white paper stick on label with blue line edgeing on three sides and plant motif in upper two corners
- Text: No 3143./Staffordshire/figure representing/Charity/Very archaic in/modelling and/colouring.Came from a cot/tage at Lolworth/nr Cambridge./b, at Cambridge/March 7 1910
- Location: On front of inside of base
- Method of creation: Hand-written in black ink
- Type: Label
References and bibliographic entries
Identification numbers
Accession number: C.849-1928
Primary reference Number: 76222
Old object number: 3143
Stable URI
Audit data
Created: Saturday 6 August 2011
Updated: Tuesday 30 April 2024
Last processed: Tuesday 15 July 2025
Associated departments & institutions
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
