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Tiger
Production: Unidentified factory (Probably)
Large earthenware figure of a tiger, moulded with modelled additions, painted in green, orange, brown, and grey under lead-glaze
Earthenware, moulded with modelled additions, painted in green, orange, brown and grey under clear lead glaze. The tiger has an open mouth and long protruding tongue. The clay has been combed to suggest fur and the face is finely modeled, with a row of front teeth and sharp upper and lower incisors at either side of the tongue. The tiger is painted orange all over, with grey stripes and white whiskers. The base is a rectangular plinth with green pigment unevenly spread under or in the glaze. The underside is recessed and glazed, with four ventilation holes under the tiger’s legs.
History note: Mrs Arthur James; sold at Sotheby’s, 28 November 1910, Old Staffordshire Pottery the property of Mrs Arthur James, lot 52. Bought by Mr Stoner for £6 on behalf of Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge
Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest
Height: 22.5 cm
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1928-12-07) by Glaisher, J. W. L., Dr
Circa 1820 - Perhaps 1830
Pearlware figures decorated with under-glaze colours were popular from the 1790s until the late 1830s. Although sometimes known as ‘Pratt ware’, they were made by many small potteries and are rarely marked. Classical and allegorical subjects were common, as were figures engaged in everyday work and leisure and wild, circus and domestic animals. Exotic animals such as lions and tigers would have been known from travelling menageries.
Under-glaze painted figures were moulded and biscuit fired, then painted or sponged with metal oxide colours before glazing and firing. This required only two firings, so they were cheaper to produce than enamelled figures, but they were restricted to a palette of earth colours (yellow, green, blue, purple, brown and black), since only metal oxide colours could withstand the high temperature of the glaze firing. Some, like this example, were very finely moulded and others used complex multi-part moulds. But by c.1835 three-part press-moulding had largely taken over, enabling even cheaper and faster production for a growing market.
Decoration
composed of
oxide colours
( green, orange, brown, and grey)
lead-glaze
Base
Depth 13.5 cm
Width 31 cm
Parts
Moulding : Earthenware, press-moulded and modelled, painted and lead-glazed.
Inscription present: rectangular paper label
Accession number: C.852-1928
Primary reference Number: 76231
Old object number: 3319
Stable URI
Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Applied Arts
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