IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 76233 accession number: C.854-1928 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Saturday 6 August 2011 updated: Friday 15 December 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Cream earthenware, press-moulded, and painted in blue, olive-green, yellow, orange, and dark brown under lead-glaze. The underside is open and glazed internally. The cat lies on a rectangular cushion with a convex yellow top and a sloping green gathered side. Its front paws are just visible, and its tail is curled around its hind quarters. It has dark brown eyes and eyebrows, and spots inside its ears, the tips of which are missing. The cream body is decorated with randomly-placed short blue, green and orange brush strokes, and on the tail with black spots. object type: cream earthenware painted underglaze in blue, olive-green, yellow, orange, and dark brown title: animal figure NOTES ----- type: history note value: Puttick and Simpson, London, 10 March1922, one of four cats, in lot 30; bought for 4½ guineas by Mack (the porter) on behalf of 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/76233 SUBJECTS ------------------- cat cushion cat cushion TECHNIQUES ---------- cream earthenware, press-moulded, fired to biscuit, painted in blue, green, yellow, orange, and dark brwon, and lead-glazed before firing again press-moulding CATEGORIES ------ category: lead-glazed earthenware category: Pratt Ware DATING ------ creation date: 1790 - 1810 creation date earliest: 1790 creation date latest: 1810 culture: 18th Century, Late-19th Century, Early# culture: George III CREATORS -------- maker: Unidentified Staffordshire factory DIMENSIONS ---------- dimension: Height units: cm value: 6.6 CITATIONS -------- Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge Pratt Ware English Earthenware Figures 1740-1840 --- IMAGES surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_854_1928_281_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/mid_C_854_1928_281_29.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_854_1928_281_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/preview_C_854_1928_281_29.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels surrogate: large format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_854_1928_282_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: mid format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/mid_C_854_1928_282_29.jpg height: 362 pixels width: 500 pixels surrogate: original format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/C_854_1928_282_29.jpg height: 550 pixels width: 760 pixels surrogate: preview format: jpeg location: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/imagestore/aa/aa2/preview_C_854_1928_282_29.jpg height: 181 pixels width: 250 pixels