IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 76232 accession number: C.853-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Saturday 3 June 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Slip-cast animal figure of a leopard lying with head up, ears pricked and eyes alert, on a green base. The leopard is finely modelled and coloured a pale mustard yellow with dark brown stippled spots; its eyes are brown and eyes, inner ears, mouth, whiskers and claws are picked out in black. The base is sponged grass green. Blades of grass and the animal’s eyebrows are suggested by grey strokes, lightly applied with a stiff brush. The underside is open and the interior glazed. object type: Earthenware, slip-cast, lead glazed and painted with oxides and enamels. title: animal figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Bought by Mr Stoner at Puttick and Simpson, Argyll St, London, on 2 March 1917, lot 235, for £4.10s.6p (four pounds ten shillings and sixpence); sold for £4.14s.6p (four pounds fourteen shillings and sixpence) to Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Applied Arts collection: J. W. L. Glaisher creditline: Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/76232 SUBJECTS ------------------- leopard leopard TECHNIQUES ---------- earthenware, slip-cast, lead glazed and painted with metallic oxides and enamel slip-casting CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware category: underglaze painted figures DATING ------ creation date: 1800 - 1830 creation date earliest: 1800 creation date latest: 1830 culture: 19th Century, Early culture: George III or George IV CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified factory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 13.3 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge English Earthenware Figures 1740-1840 Collecting Staffordshire Pottery --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_853_1928_281_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/mid_C_853_1928_281_29.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_853_1928_281_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/preview_C_853_1928_281_29.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_853_1928_282_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/mid_C_853_1928_282_29.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/C_853_1928_282_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa8/preview_C_853_1928_282_29.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels