IDENTIFIERS
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id:	76234
accession number:	C.855-1928

DATE AUDIT
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created:	Saturday 6 August 2011
updated:	Friday 15 December 2023

DESCRIPTIVE DATA
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object type: Cream earthenware, press-moulded, and painted in reddish-brown, paler brown and dark brown under lead-glaze. The underside is open and the interior is glazed. The cat reclines with its head turned towards the viewer and its tail curled round its right hind leg. Its ears and features are picked out in dark brown, and its body is covered with randomly placed dabs of the three shades of brown. The oval base has slanting striations on its sloping sides, and is painted with roughly oval splodges of the three shades of brown.
object type: cream earthenware painted in reddish-brown, paler brown, and dark brown under lead-glaze. A cat reclining on an oval base
title:	animal figure

NOTES
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type: history note
value: Puttick & Simpson, London, 10 March 1922, one of four cats in lot 30; purchased for 4½ guineas by Mack on behalf of Dr J.W.L. Glaisher, FRS, Trinity College, Cambridge


LICENSING
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text license status:	CC0
image license status:	CC-BY-NC-SA

OWNERSHIP
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instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum
department: Applied Arts
collection:	J. W. L. Glaisher
creditline: Dr J. W. L. Glaisher Bequest

STABLE URL
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url:	https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/76234


SUBJECTS
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cat
cat



TECHNIQUES
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cream earthenware, press-moulded, painted in reddish-brown, paler brown and dark brown, and lead-glazed; the underside is open and the interior is glazed
press-moulding

CATEGORIES
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category: lead-glazed earthenware
category: underglaze painted figures

DATING
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creation date:	1790 - 1810
creation date earliest:	1790
creation date latest:	1810
culture:	19th Century, Early#
culture:	George III

CREATORS
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maker: Unidentified Staffordshire factory

DIMENSIONS
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dimension: Height
units: cm
value: 7.6

dimension: Length
units: cm
value: 9.1



CITATIONS
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Catalogue of the Glaisher Collection of Pottery and Porcelain in the Fitzwilliam Museum Cambridge
Pratt Ware
English Earthenware Figures 1740-1840
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